A gallant or courtly gentleman.

synonym: chevalier.

Roget 268: traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter.    tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator^†, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling^†; vagrant, scatterling^†, landloper^†, waifs and estrays^†, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab^†, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly^†; globegirdler^†, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo [U.S.], night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman [Austral.]; trecker^†, trekker, zingano^†, zingaro^†.    runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel^†, comet.    pedestrian, walker, foot passenger; cyclist; wheelman.    rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker.    driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy^†, carter, wagoner, drayman^†; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier^†, vetturino^†, condottiere^†; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah^†, gari-wala^†, hackman, syce^†, truckman^†.    ... show more

A royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War.

synonym: Royalist.

Given to haughty disregard of others.

synonym: high-handed.

Roget 895: discourteous, uncourteous^†; uncourtly^†; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite^†; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar etc. 851; dedecorous^†; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive.    uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.    repulsive; uncomplaisant^†, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable^†; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier.    taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling etc. v.; surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen etc. 901.1; peevish etc. (irascible) 901.    untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic; artless etc. 703; ... show more

Roget 930: contemptuous; disdainful, scornful; withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier; derisive.    contemptible, despicable; pitiable; pitiful etc. (unimportant) 643; despised etc. v.; downtrodden; unenvied^†.    unrespectable (unworthy) 874.    ... show more

Roget 863: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating^†; heedless; careless etc. (neglectful) 460; without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy etc. (inattentive) 458; wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care.    hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained^†; headlong, headstrong; breakneck; foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive.    overconfident, overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier; janty^†, jaunty, free and easy.    off one's guard etc. (inexpectant) 508^†.    ... show more

Roget 885: insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown.    flippant, pert, fresh [U.S.], cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert.    precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious.    bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushing^†, unabashed; brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame.    impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty^†; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury" [Macbeth]. ... show more