Associations to the word «Imperious»

Wiktionary

IMPERIOUS, adjective. Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
IMPERIOUS, adjective. Urgent.
IMPERIOUS, adjective. (obsolete) Imperial or regal.

Dictionary definition

IMPERIOUS, adjective. 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.

Wise words

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery