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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bragging |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, big, big-headed, bombastic, cocky, conceited, crowing, egotistic, egotistical, exultant, full of hot air, hifalutin, hot stuff, know-it-all, loudmouth, on ego trip, pompous, pretentious, puffed-up, self-aggrandizing, self-applauding, smart-alecky, snooty, strutting, stuck-up, swaggering, swanky, swollen-headed, too big for one's britches, vainglorious, vaunting, windbag |
| Antonyms: | deprecating, modest |
| 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: | 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: | highfalutin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, boastful, conceited, flaunting, grandiose, high and mighty, important, lofty, ostentatious, overbearing, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, self-centered, stuck-up, swanky, uppity, vain |
| Main Entry: | ostentatious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flashy, showy |
| Synonyms: | boastful, chichi*, classy, conspicuous, crass*, dashing, egotistic, exhibitionistic, extravagant, flamboyant, flatulent, flaunted, fussy, garish, gaudy, gay, glittery, grandiose, highfaluting, jaunty, loud, obtrusive, peacocky, pompous, pretentious, spectacular, splashy, splurgy, sporty, swank, swanky*, theatrical, tinsel, tony, uptown, vain, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | modest, plain, quiet, reserved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | proud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, self-important |
| Synonyms: | bloated, boastful, cavalier, cocky*, conceited, contemptuous, cool*, disdainful, dismissive, domineering, egotistic, egotistical, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, huffy, imperious, insolent, lofty, narcissistic, ostentatious, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, scornful, self-satisfied, sniffy, snobbish, snooty, stuck-up, supercilious, superior, vain, vainglorious |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, modest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | triumphant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | successful |
| Synonyms: | boastful, celebratory, champion, conquering, dominant, elated, exultant, glorious, happy, in the lead, jubilant, looking good, lucky, on top, out front, prizewinning, proud, rejoicing, swaggering, triumphal, unbeaten, undefeated, victorious, winning |
| Antonyms: | defeated, failing, losing, unsuccessful |
| Main Entry: | vain |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | egotistical |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, big-headed, boastful, cocky*, conceited, egocentric, egoistic, haughty, high-and-mighty, inflated, narcissistic, ostentatious, overweening, pleased with oneself, proud, puffed up, self-important, stuck-up, swaggering, swollen-headed, vainglorious |
| Antonyms: | modest, shy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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