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Imperious vs Arrogate - What's the difference?

imperious | arrogate |

As an adjective imperious

is domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.

As a verb arrogate is

(lb) to appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.

imperious

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
  • * 1866 – , translated by C. J. Hogarth
  • ...she glanced about her in an imperious , challenging sort of way, with looks and gestures that clearly were unstudied.
  • Urgent.
  • * 1891
  • Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth.
  • (obsolete) Imperial or regal.
  • * 1895
  • She was quick, beautiful, imperious , while he was quiet, slow, and misty.

    Synonyms

    * (domineering) authoritarian, bossy, dictatorial, domineering, overbearing

    arrogate

    English

    Verb

    (arrogat)
  • (lb) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.
  • *
  • *
  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • Synonyms

    * (to appropriate for oneself without right) commandeer, expropriate, usurp

    Antonyms

    * abandon * abdicate * relinquish * renounce