swaggering

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swaggering

A man is swaggering down the street with a confident grin.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Flamboyantly adventurous or bold: Behaving or presented in a showily confident, bold, or dashing manner. 2. Having or showing arrogant superiority: Displaying an arrogant sense of superiority and contempt for others viewed as inferior.

Usage and Examples
  • The swaggering hero strode into the saloon, drawing everyone's attention.
  • His swaggering confidence was both impressive and irritating to his more reserved colleagues.
  • The general addressed the troops with a swaggering tone of absolute certainty.
Advanced Usage and Nuances
  • The term often implies that the confidence displayed is excessive, ostentatious, or intended to impress or intimidate others.
  • It can describe both a physical gait (a swaggering walk) and a manner of speaking or behaving (a swaggering attitude).
Variants and Related Words
  • Swagger (verb/noun): To walk or behave in a very confident and typically arrogant way; the act or manner of swaggering.
    • He swaggered into the room.
    • He walked with a swagger.
  • Swaggerer (noun): A person who swaggers.
Synonyms
  • Strutting
  • Boastful
  • Overconfident
  • Lordly
  • Haughty
  • Supercilious
Antonyms
  • Humble
  • Meek
  • Modest
  • Unassuming
  • Diffident
Idiomatic Connections
  • To swagger about/around/in: This phrasal structure is commonly used with the verb form to describe the act of moving or behaving in a swaggering manner in a particular place.
    • The victorious team swaggered around the stadium.
  • While not a phrasal verb, the adjective is central to the idiom "full of swagger", meaning brimming with arrogant confidence.
    • The young entrepreneur gave a speech full of swagger.
swaggering

A man is swaggering down the street with a confident grin.

Adjective
  1. flamboyantly adventurous
  2. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
    • some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
    • haughty aristocrats
    • his lordly manners were offensive
    • walked with a prideful swagger
    • very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
    • his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
    • a more swaggering mood than usual- W.L.Shirer

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