| Main Entry: | self-important |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceited |
Synonyms: |
arrogant, bigheaded, cocky, egotistical, full of hot air, immodest, know-it-all, overbearing, pompous, puffed up, smug, stuck up, swollen-headed, vain, vainglorious |
| Main Entry: | arrogant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having exaggerated self-opinion |
Synonyms: |
aloof, assuming, audacious, autocratic, biggety, bossy, bragging, cavalier, cheeky, cocky, cold-shoulder, conceited, contemptuous, cool*, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, haughty, high and mighty, high-handed, imperious, insolent, know-it-all, lordly, on an ego trip, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, puffed up, scornful, self-important, smarty, smug, sniffy, snippy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, supercilious, superior, swaggering, uppity, vain, wise guy |
Antonyms: |
humble, meek, servile, unconceited |
| Main Entry: | conceited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | egotistical |
Synonyms: |
arrogant, big talking, bigheaded, cocky, conceity, full of hot air, gall, ham, hot stuff, immodest, know-it-all, loudmouth, narcissistic, overweening, phony, puffed up, self-important, smart-alecky, snotty, stuck up, swollen-headed, vain, vainglorious, windbag |
Antonyms: |
diffident, humble, meek, modest, self-conscious, shy, timid, unself-confident |
| Main Entry: | egotistic/egoistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking very highly of oneself |
Synonyms: |
affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, bragging, conceited, egocentric, egomaniacal, haughty, individualistic, inflated, inner-directed, intimate, intrinsic, introverted, isolated, narcissistic, obsessive, opinionated, personal, pompous, prideful, proud, puffed up, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-centered, self-important, snobbish, stuck on oneself, stuck-up, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious |
Antonyms: |
altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, selfless, shy, submissive, timid, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | exalted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | praised; held in high esteem |
Synonyms: |
astral, august, dignified, elevated, eminent, exaggerated, excessive, first, grand, high, high-minded, high-ranking, highest, highest-ranking, honorable, honored, ideal, illustrious, immodest, imposing, inflated, intellectual, leading, lofty, magnificent, noble, number one, outstanding, overblown, pompous, prestigious, pretentious, proud, self-important, sublime, superb, superior, top-drawer, top-ranking, uplifting |
Antonyms: |
condemned, criticized, debased, denounced, humiliated |
| Main Entry: | fustian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous |
Synonyms: |
arrogant, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flaunting, high and mighty, highfalutin, lofty, ostentatious, pontifical, portentous, pretentious, puffed up, ranting, self-centered, self-important, vain, vainglorious |
| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
Synonyms: |
affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |
Antonyms: |
dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | self-important |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceited |
Synonyms: |
arrogant, bigheaded, cocky, egotistical, full of hot air, immodest, know-it-all, overbearing, pompous, puffed up, smug, stuck up, swollen-headed, vain, vainglorious |
| Main Entry: | snotty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant |
Synonyms: |
cheeky, cocky, conceited, fresh, haughty, high and mighty, highfalutin', impertinent, know-it-all, la-de-da, pompous, pretentious, puffed up, sassy, self-important, smart-alecky, smug, snippy, snobby, snooty, stuck-up, uppity |
| Main Entry: | stuffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned, prim |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, arrogant, bloated, conventional, dreary, dull, fusty, genteel, humorless, important, magisterial, musty, narrow-minded, pompous, priggish, prim and proper, prissy, prudish, puffy, puritanical, self-important, staid, stilted, stodgy, straitlaced, uninteresting |
Antonyms: |
current, informal, modern, new |