imperious

imperious has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic.
• a.. Haughly; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner.
• a.. Imperative; urgent; compelling.
• a.. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer