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| Concept: | Boasting. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
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boasting; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant; vainglorious (conceited); highfalutin, highfaluting; spread-eagle [U.S.]., elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts., vaunted
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| Main Entry: | vainglorious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boastful, proud |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, blowing one's own horn, boasting, bragging, cavalier, cocky*, conceited, egotistic, egotistical, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, huffy, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, self-important, snobbish, snooty, strutting, stuck-up, swaggering, vain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | egotistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conceited |
| Synonyms: | affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, bragging, conceited, egocentric, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, haughty, idiosyncratic, inborn, individualistic, inflated, ingrained, inherent, 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-up, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious |
| Antonyms: | altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, selfless, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | self-involved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, bragging, conceited, egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, 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, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish, snobbish, stuck on oneself, stuck-up, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious, wrapped up in oneself |
| Main Entry: | self-seeking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, bragging, conceited, egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, 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, self-involved, self-serving, selfish, snobbish, stuck on oneself, stuck-up, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious, wrapped up in oneself |
| Main Entry: | self-serving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, bragging, conceited, egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, 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, self-involved, self-seeking, selfish, snobbish, stuck on oneself, stuck-up, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious, wrapped up in oneself |
| Main Entry: | swellheaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, bragging, conceited, egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, 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 |
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| Concept: | Exaggeration. |
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exaggerated; overwrought; bombastic (grandiloquent); hyperbolical, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying.
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| Concept: | Ostentation. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
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ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid (big-sounding) [more]; gairish, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a peacock, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay (ornate)., splendid, magnificent, sumptuous., theatrical, dramatic, spectacular; ceremonial, ritual., solemn, stately, majestic, formal, stiff, ceremonious, punctilious, starched., en granite tenue, in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanche, chic.
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