| Supercilious (a.) Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior. Thesaurus Entries arrogant, cavalier, clannish, cliquish, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, dismissive, exclusive, haughty, high and mighty, high-and-mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, insolent, la-di-da, lofty, lordly, overbearing, patronizing, pompous, pretentious, scornful, sneering, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, snuffy, stuck-up, stuffy, superior, toploftical, toplofty, uppish, uppity, withering |