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Dictionary: high-and-might·y   ('ən-mī')
adj.
Marked by arrogance; haughty and overbearing.

high and mighty high and mighty adv. & n.

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adjective

    Overly convinced of one's own superiority and importance: arrogant, haughty, insolent, lofty, lordly, overbearing, overweening, prideful, proud, supercilious, superior. Idioms: on one's high horse. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude.

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Conceited, haughty, as in She was too high and mighty to make her own bed. This expression originally alluded to high-born rulers and was being transferred to the merely arrogant by the mid-1600s.


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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
  Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, magisterial, peremptory


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