Synonyms for stuck up
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : stuhk-uhp |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈstʌkˈʌp |
Top 10 synonyms for stuck up Other synonyms for the word stuck up
- above
- abscond
- abstracted
- affected
- airish
- airy
- antagonistic
- apart
- apish
- appropriate
- artificial
- artsy
- assault
- assuming
- audacious
- autocratic
- beetle
- big
- big talking
- big-headed
- biggety
- bigheaded
- blackmail
- bloated
- blowing one's own horn
- boasting
- boost
- bragging
- brooding
- burgle
- burn
- butt out
- campy
- carry off
- casual
- cavalier
- ceremonious
- cheat
- cheeky
- chichi
- chilly
- cocky
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-shoulder
- come through
- complacent
- con
- conceited
- conceity
- condescending
- conscious
- contemptuous
- cool
- cop
- cozen
- crowing
- defalcate
- defraud
- depredate
- despoil
- detached
- devastate
- disdainful
- disinherit
- disinterested
- dismissive
- dispossess
- distant
- distend
- divert
- divest
- do out of
- domineering
- easy-going
- egocentric
- egoistic
- egoistical
- egomaniacal
- egotistic
- egotistical
- embezzle
- erect
- extend
- extrude
- exultant
- faraway
- filch
- flatulent
- flaunting
- fleece
- flowery
- forage
- foray
- forbidding
- formal
- fresh
- full of hot air
- fustian
- gall
- gone Hollywood
- grab
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- gut
- ham
- hard-boiled
- hard-hearted
- haughty
- heist
- hifalutin
- high
- high and mighty
- high falutin
- high-and-mighty
- high-flown
- high-handed
- high-hat
- highfalutin
- highfalutin'
- highfaluting
- hijack
- hoity-toity
- hold for ransom
- hold up
- holier-than-thou
- hostile
- hot stuff
- hotshot
- housebreak
- huffy
- hump
- hustle
- icy
- idiosyncratic
- immodest
- imperious
- impertinent
- important
- inaccessible
- inborn
- incurious
- indifferent
- individualist
- individualistic
- inflated
- ingrained
- inherent
- inhospitable
- inner-directed
- insociable
- insolent
- intimate
- intrinsic
- introspective
- introverted
- isolated
- jut
- jut out
- keep
- kidnap
- kip
- knock off
- knock over
- know-it-all
- la-de-da
- la-di-da
- laid back
- laid-back
- lay waste
- liberate
- lift
- loft
- lofty
- lone wolf
- loner
- loot
- lordly
- lose
- loudmouth
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- make
- make off with
- maraud
- megalomaniac
- misappropriate
- modest
- moonlight requisition
- mug
- narcissistic
- nongregarious
- nose in the air
- obsessive
- obtrude
- offish
- on a high horse
- on an ego trip
- on ego trip
- on high horse
- on ice
- on one's high horse
- opinionated
- orotund
- ostentatious
- oust
- overbearing
- overblown
- overhang
- overweening
- patronizing
- peculate
- peremptory
- perk up
- persnickety
- personal
- phony
- pile
- pilfer
- pillage
- pinch
- pirate
- plagiarize
- pleased with oneself
- plunder
- poach
- point
- poke
- pompous
- pontifical
- pop
- portentous
- posed
- pouch
- pout
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- prey
- prick
- prideful
- priggish
- project
- promote
- proud
- prowl
- puffed up
- puffed-up
- puffy
- purloin
- purse-snatch
- put on airs
- putting on airs
- raid
- raise
- ransack
- ravage
- recessive
- reclusive
- relieve
- remote
- remove
- removed
- requisition
- reserved
- restrained
- reticent
- retiring
- rhetorical
- rifle
- rip off
- rob
- roll
- run off with
- sack
- salvage
- sassy
- scornful
- scrounge
- secluded
- secretive
- self-absorbed
- self-admiring
- self-aggrandizing
- self-applauding
- self-centered
- self-concerned
- self-conscious
- self-contented
- self-important
- self-indulgent
- self-interested
- self-involved
- self-loving
- self-respecting
- self-righteous
- self-satisfied
- self-seeking
- self-serving
- selfish
- sensitive
- shoot out
- shoplift
- showy
- shy
- smart-alecky
- smarty
- smash and grab
- smug
- snatch
- sniffy
- snippy
- snitch
- snobbish
- snobby
- snooty
- snotty
- solitary
- sonorous
- spirit away
- spoil
- stack
- stand erect
- stand out
- stand up
- standoff
- standoffish
- start
- steal
- steal from
- stick up
- stiff
- stilted
- strip
- strong-arm
- strutting
- stuck on oneself
- stuck up
- stuck-up
- stuffy
- subjective
- supercilious
- superior
- swaggering
- swanky
- swell
- swindle
- swipe
- swollen
- swollen-headed
- take
- take possession of
- thick-skinned
- thieve
- timid
- tip over
- too big for one's britches
- turgid
- unapproachable
- unbending
- uncommunicative
- uncompanionable
- unconcerned
- uncongenial
- unforthcoming
- unfriendly
- uninterested
- uninvolved
- unnatural
- unneighborly
- unresponsive
- unsociable
- unsocial
- unsympathetic
- uppity
- upstage
- vain
- vainglorious
- vaunting
- walk off with
- waylay
- windbag
- windy
- wise guy
- wiseguy
- withdraw
- withdrawn
- withhold
- wrapped up in oneself
Définition of stuck up
Origin :- Old English sticca "rod, twig, spoon," from Proto-Germanic *stikkon- "pierce, prick" (cf. Old Norse stik, Old High German stehho, German Stecken "stick, staff"), from PIE *steig- "to stick; pointed" (see stick (v.)). Meaning "staff used in a game" is from 1670s (originally billiards); meaning "manual gearshift lever" first recorded 1914. Stick-ball is attested from 1824. Alliterative connection of sticks and stones is recorded from mid-15c.
- As in arrogant : adj having exaggerated self-opinion
- As in mannered : adj affected, put-on
- As in narcissistic : adj concerned only with oneself
- As in pompous : adj arrogant, egotistic
- As in proud : adj arrogant, self-important
- As in remote : adj cold, detached; unapproachable
- As in self-important : adj conceited
- As in smug : adj pleased with oneself
- As in snooty : adj haughty
- As in snotty : adj arrogant
- As in stuck-up : adj snobbish
- As in superior : adj arrogant, haughty
- As in unsociable : adj unfriendly
- As in uppity : adj arrogant
- As in vain : adj egotistical
- As in vainglorious : adj boastful, proud
- As in boastful : adj bragging
- As in egotistic : adj conceited
- As in bigheaded : adj egotistic
- As in egoistic : adj egotistic
- As in egoistical : adj egotistic
- As in egotistical : adj egotistic
- As in individualistic : adj egocentric
- As in prideful : adj arrogant
- As in prideful : adj proud
- As in puffed-up : adj pompous
- As in self-involved : adj egotistic
- As in self-respecting : adj proud
- As in self-seeking : adj egotistic
- As in self-serving : adj egotistic
- As in swellheaded : adj egotistic
- As in conceited : adj egotistical
- As in distant : adj aloof
- As in egocentric : adj thinking very highly of oneself
- As in egotistic/egoistic : adj thinking very highly of oneself
- As in aloof : adj remote
- As in haughty : adj arrogant
- As in high and mighty : adj haughty, overbearing
- As in highfalutin : adj pompous
- As in loot : verb steal goods
- As in mug : verb hold up
- As in plunder : verb ravage, steal
- As in protrude : verb stick out
- As in rob : verb steal, deprive
- As in shoplift : verb steal
- As in steal : verb take something without permission
- As in cock : verb aim up toward
- As in hold up : verb rob
- Only the point of it stuck up; the rest was clipped as clean as a rat-terrier's.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- On the other I stuck up a chip from Carlyle, which I daresay is as familiar to you as to me.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- Ain't too stuck up to shake hands after all these years, are you?
- Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- That stuck up Becky Hastings shan't have him, if I die for it.
- Extract from : « The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; » by Various
- But the feelin' is that they finds her some stuck up an' haughty.
- Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
- Isn't the regulations of the house printed, and stuck up on all the walls?
- Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever
- "Folks would say I was stuck up if I did that," retorted the youth quickly.
- Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Motor-boat » by Victor Appleton
- I just stuck up a couple of sticks at supper time and came in.
- Extract from : « The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters » by Charles Henry Lerrigo
- Someone had stuck up a notice at the entrance to the gangway: ‘Don’t get born.
- Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome
- I want to tell you how glad I am that you stuck up for Honor last night.
- Extract from : « The New Girl at St. Chad's » by Angela Brazil
Antonyms for stuck up
- adjacent
- aid
- allow
- altruistic
- approachable
- bad
- be honest
- below
- bequeath
- cave in
- close
- clothe
- compassionate
- concerned
- condemn
- continue
- contract
- convenient
- cover
- demote
- deprecating
- depress
- diffident
- disallow
- discourage
- dull
- fail
- forward
- friendly
- gentle
- give
- give up
- guard
- halt
- harm
- help
- hold
- humble
- hurt
- inferior
- injure
- interested
- keep
- kind
- let go
- likely
- lose
- lower
- maintain
- meek
- minor
- modest
- natural
- near
- nearby
- neighboring
- nice
- offer
- outgoing
- permit
- plain
- poor
- possible
- prevent
- probable
- promote
- protect
- public
- raze
- receive
- refuse
- reject
- related
- release
- relevant
- reserved
- return
- sacrificing
- sad
- self-conscious
- selfless
- servile
- shrink
- shy
- simple
- sink
- sociable
- social
- sorry
- stay
- stop
- submissive
- sympathetic
- timid
- unassuming
- unconceited
- unhappy
- unpretentious
- unself-confident
- unselfish
- unsure
- warm
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