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Definition of Imperious
1. Adjective. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy. "A more swaggering mood than usual"
Similar to: Proud
Derivative terms: Disdainfulness, Haughtiness, Imperiousness, Lordliness, Overbearingness, Superciliousness
Definition of Imperious
1. a. Commanding; ascendant; imperial; lordly; majestic.
Definition of Imperious
1. Adjective. Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing. ¹
2. Adjective. Urgent. ¹
3. Adjective. (obsolete) Imperial or regal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imperious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperious
Literary usage of Imperious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... and well kept, and very convenient for travellers : but nothing was more
awkward to me, than to fee fuch an haughty, imperious, ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1915)
"the longer he lives in the practice of tyranny the more imperious he becomes."
" That is inevitable," said Glaucon, taking his turn in the discussion. IV. ..."
3. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, George Smith, Harold F. Oxbury (1885)
"... by the great charm of her manner, to have taken the place in the queen's
affections of her imperious predecessor (see DARTMOUTH'S note to BURNET, vi. ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... powerful in him than the poetic impulse, the disposition to analyze and to
teach more imperious than the promptness to feel and the tendency to' sing. ..."
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