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Meaning of 'imperious' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Imperious [ a.]
- Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic.
- Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner.
- Imperative; urgent; compelling.

Meaning of 'imperious' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . imperious [ s]
Meaning (1):
- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
Example in sentence:
  • a more swaggering mood than usual;
  • haughty aristocrats;
  • his lordly manners were offensive;
  • his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air;
  • some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines;
  • very sniffy about breaches of etiquette;
  • walked with a prideful swagger

Nearby Words:

imp imp-pole impacable impackment impact impacted impacting impaction impaint impair

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