high-and-mighty

1. 1.

   offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

   “an autocratic person”

   “autocratic behavior”

   “a bossy way of ordering others around”

   “a rather aggressive and dominating character”

   “managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way”

   “a swaggering peremptory manner”

   Synonymsautocraticbossydominatingmagisterialperemptory

   Similardomineering

Questions about high-and-mighty

What does high-and-mighty mean?

high-and-mighty means "offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power".

How many syllables are in high-and-mighty?

high-and-mighty has 4 syllables: hig-h-and--migh-ty. The stress falls on "h-and-".

What is another word for high-and-mighty?

Close synonyms include autocratic, bossy, dominating, magisterial, peremptory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high-and-mighty a common word?

high-and-mighty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.