self-asserting

adjective

self-as·​sert·​ing ˌself-ə-ˈsər-tiŋ 

1

: asserting oneself or one's own rights, claims, or opinions

2

a

: self-assured, confident

b

: arrogant

self-assertingly

ˌself-ə-ˈsər-tiŋ-lē 

adverb

Synonyms

• arrogant
• assumptive
• bumptious
• cavalier
• chesty
• haughty
• high-and-mighty
• high-handed
• high-hat
• highfalutin
• hifalutin
• huffish
• huffy
• imperious
• important
• lofty
• lordly
• masterful
• overweening
• peremptory
• pompous
• presuming
• presumptuous
• pretentious
• self-assertive
• sniffy
• stiff-necked
• supercilious
• superior
• toplofty
• toploftical
• uppish
• uppity

Examples of self-asserting in a Sentence

a bunch of self-asserting upstarts who thought that they could buy their way into high society

it takes a rather self-asserting person to start a business at such a young age

just the kind of cocky, self-asserting person that you'd expect a sports agent to be

Word History

First Known Use

1821, in the meaning defined at sense 1