uppityness Synonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- important
- uppish
- sniffy
- presumptuous
- high-and-mighty
- bumptious
- supercilious
- pompous
- huffy
- hifalutin
- presuming
- high-hat
- superior
- cavalier
- domineering
- assumptive
- smug
- pretentious
- haughty
- dominating
- chesty
- high-handed
- dominant
- masterful
- authoritarian
- imperious
Weak:
- bossy
- conceited
- extraverted
- swaggering
- braggart
- self-centered
- proud
- immodest
- self-satisfied
- toploftical
- impertinent
- stiff-necked
- snobby
- egoistical
- patronizing
- saucy
- prideful
- highfalutin
- complacent
- huffish
- vain
- uninhibited
- condescending
- impudent
- peremptory
- lordly
- bombastic
- stuck-up
- cocky
- blustery
- disdainful
- vainglorious
- lofty
- overweening
- bragging
- narcissistic
- magisterial
- boastful
- egoistic
- toplofty
- egotistic
- pontifical
- self-assertive
- hubristic
- blusterous
- self-asserting
- snobbish
- braggy
- egotistical
- snooty
- pontificating
- egocentric
Strongest:
- subdued
- unpretentious
- shy
- lowly
- humble
- bashful
- unpretentious
- bashful
- timid
- shy
- timid
- sheepish
- lowly
- modest
- subdued
- humble
- sheepish
- modest
Strong:
- unaggressive
- meek
- deferential
- unassertive
- passive
- introverted
- unaggressive
- unobtrusive
- submissive
- submissive
- mousey
- quiet
- cringing
- unobtrusive
- shrinking
- compliant
- unassuming
- unassuming
- compliant
- introverted
- mousy
- shrinking
- diffident
- passive
- acquiescent
- unassertive
- unarrogant
- mousy
- quiet
- acquiescent
- diffident
- cringing
- yielding
- unarrogant
- meek
- demure
- yielding
- mousey
- demure
- deferential
Weak:
uppityness Meaning
uppityness (n)
assumption of airs beyond one's station
uppityness Sentence Examples
- The manager's uppityness alienated the employees and created a hostile work environment.
- Some people find her uppityness charming, but others find it off-putting.
- I've never met anyone as uppity as her; she acts like she's better than everyone else.
- The uppityness of the upper-class elite can be incredibly condescending.
- Her uppityness got her into trouble with the authorities.
- I hate dealing with uppity people; they're always trying to act superior.
- The uppityness of the new receptionist turned off customers.
- He has such an uppityness about him; it's like he thinks he's the only intelligent person in the room.
- I don't appreciate the uppityness of this new employee; he needs to learn his place.
- The uppityness of certain individuals can be a major turn-off in social situations.
FAQs About the word uppityness
assumption of airs beyond one's station
arrogant, important, uppish, sniffy, presumptuous, high-and-mighty, bumptious, supercilious, pompous, huffy
subdued, unpretentious, shy, lowly, humble, bashful, unpretentious, bashful, timid, shy
The manager's uppityness alienated the employees and created a hostile work environment.
Some people find her uppityness charming, but others find it off-putting.
I've never met anyone as uppity as her; she acts like she's better than everyone else.
The uppityness of the upper-class elite can be incredibly condescending.
