super- "above" + second element akin to cilium "eyelid,"

source: Lars carries on a noble tradition. | Blahg

PROUD, ARROGANT, HAUGHTY, LORDLY, INSOLENT, OVERBEARING, SUPERCILIOUS, DISDAINFUL mean showing scorn for inferiors.

PROUD may suggest an assumed superiority or loftiness.

e.g. too proud to take charity

ARROGANT implies a claiming for oneself of more consideration or importance than is warranted.

e.g. a conceited and arrogant executive

HAUGHTY suggests a consciousness of superior birth or position.

e.g. a haughty aristocrat

LORDLY implies pomposity or an arrogant display of power.

e.g. a lordly condescension

INSOLENT implies contemptuous haughtiness.

e.g. ignored by an insolent waiter

OVERBEARING suggests a tyrannical manner or an intolerable insolence.

e.g. an overbearing supervisor

SUPERCILIOUS implies a cool, patronizing haughtiness.

e.g. an aloof and supercilious manner

DISDAINFUL suggests a more active and openly scornful superciliousness.

e.g. disdainful of their social inferiors

behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others:

｟非難して｠ 〈人･態度などが〉人を見下すような, 偉そうな, 横柄な(haughty)

e.g. a supercilious lady's maid.

superciliously |ˌso͞opərˈsilēəslē| adverb

superciliousness |ˌso͞opərˈsilēəsnəs| noun

early 16th century: from Latin superciliosus ‘haughty’, from supercilium ‘eyebrow’.