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# arrogance

«arrogance» in Mova's school dictionary: **more important, cleverer or better than other people** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (arrogance; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Behaving as if you are more important, cleverer or better than other people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogance/#m1)

2) Too much pride that makes someone rude or not willing to listen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogance/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories about proud characters who look down on others and often learn a lesson. In ethics and religious lessons, arrogance is seen as a fault, the opposite of humility. Phrases: full of arrogance, the arrogance of, sheer arrogance.

### examples

- The hare's arrogance made him lose the race to the tortoise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogance/#x1)
- His arrogance made it hard for others to like him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogance/#x2)
- She spoke with arrogance, as if nobody else knew anything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogance/#x3)
- The king's arrogance led to his downfall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogance/#x4)
- Being confident is good, but arrogance is not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogance/#x5)
- It was pure arrogance to think he couldn't lose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogance/#x6)
- Many stories teach that arrogance comes before a fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogance/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: arrogant; adverb: arrogantly. Opposite: humility, modesty. Not the same as confidence: confidence is believing in yourself, arrogance is thinking you are better than others. Spelled with double r.

### In the corpora

- [And hath He not full knowledge of arrogance?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.938/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «arrogance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arrogance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.