If someone thinks they are always doing the right thing, and believes others are wrong, what would I call them? Say, for example, I did something that person considers wrong. But then on another
Word for someone who thinks they can do anything, and believes ...
Strictly speaking "someone" rather than "someone else" could include yourself and it is quite permissible to say "I'm collecting this on my own behalf" so, yes, there is a difference. Most people would interpret the phrase without the word "else" in it as meaning someone other than yourself but, strictly, you should include it: "someone else's" also sounds more colloquial. I would include the ...
Answers without enough detail may be edited or deleted. I need a word that describes someone who advocates for harmful laws or policies; it would describe someone who writes policy without listening to the people it affects or someone who doesn't pay attention to actual effects of that policy, kind of like politically or socially tone-deaf.
What's the word to describe someone who acts arrogantly and always disagrees with others unreasonably in order to upset people around him/her? [I'm not looking for adjectives like unpleasant, anno...
Is there a word to describe someone who tends to disagree with others ...
I wasn't looking so much to signify the person who does the job but for the action or process itself, the action (a noun not a verb) of doing someone else's job during his/her vacations, the same way as tenure and intership are nouns.
What do you call it when someone assumes the job of someone else who is ...
A person who attends the same college or university as you, from a more technical perspective, should probably be called your collegemate (college is more or less a general term for an institution of higher education, at least, in North America) rather than your schoolmate, but I wouldn't say that this term is common enough that you will ever hear someone actually say it in real life. I've ...
What do you call someone who attends the same university as you?
I'm looking for a phrase that describes someone who's really bad at cooking, similar to 'green fingers' for someone who's good at gardening. There doesn't seem to be any such phrase from a Google s...
A pessimist is someone who always considers negative outcomes of a situation, whereas an optimist always considers the positive outcomes. Is there a word for someone who, in any given situation, doesn't care about the outcome at all?