snobbish

English

Alternative forms

• snobish

Etymology

snob +‎ -ish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnɒbɪʃ/

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Adjective

snobbish (comparative more snobbish, superlative most snobbish)

1. Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.
   • c. 1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys:

     St Cyprian's was an expensive and snobbish school which was in process of becoming more snobbish, and, I imagine, more expensive.

Synonyms

• snobby
• snobbistic
• cliquish

Translations

having the property of being a snob

• Bulgarian: снобски (bg) (snobski)
• Danish: snobbet
• Dutch: snobistisch (nl)
• Esperanto: snoba
• Finnish: snobistinen
• French: snob (fr), snobinard (fr)
• German: dünkelhaft (de), schnöselig, blasiert (de), großtuerisch, hochnäsig (de), bourgeois (de); (also and of British conditions chiefly) snobistisch, versnobt (de)
• Greek: ακατάδεκτος (el) (akatádektos), κενόδοξος (el) (kenódoxos)
• Hungarian: sznob (hu)
• Latin: superbus (la), ēmunctus
• Macedonian: на́дуен (náduen), на́дмен (nádmen), го́рделив (górdeliv), сно́бовски (snóbovski)
• Maori: whakakake, ihu tū, whakaparanga
• Persian: متفرعن (fa) (motefar'en)
• Plautdietsch: huachnäsich
• Portuguese: esnobe (pt)
• Romanian: snob (ro), (rare) snobistic
• Russian: сноби́стский (ru) (snobístskij), сно́бский (ru) (snóbskij), надме́нный (ru) (nadménnyj), высокоме́рный (ru) (vysokomérnyj), тщесла́вный (ru) (tščeslávnyj), кичли́вый (ru) (kičlívyj), гордели́вый (ru) (gordelívyj), спеси́вый (ru) (spesívyj), чванли́вый (ru) (čvanlívyj)
• Spanish: esnobista, pijo (es) (Spain), fresa (es) (Mexico)
• Swedish: snobbig (sv)
• Ukrainian: сно́бський (snóbsʹkyj)