arrogant
AIR-uh-guntadjMeaning acting as if you are more important than others
Memory hook AIR-OGANT: nose high in the AIR. Victor struts down the street with his nose so high in the air that he never sees the people saying hello. He is arrogant.
The arrogant new player refused to pass the ball to anyone.
In context He was talented, but his arrogant habit of interrupting everyone and dismissing their ideas soon left him with no partners for the project.
Similar conceited, superior, overbearing, haughty
Opposite humble, modest, meek
From Latin arrogare, “to claim for oneself”: ad (to) + rogare (to ask).