Nearby Words
immodesty
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | egotism |
| Synonyms: | amour-propre, arrogance, complacence, complacency, consequence, immodesty, narcissism, outrecuidance, pomposity, pride, self-admiration, self-conceit, self-exaltation, self-importance, self-love, self-regard, smugness, snottiness, stuffiness, swagger, swelled head, vainglory, vainness, vanity |
| Antonyms: | humility, meekness, modesty, self-consciousness, shyness, timidity, unself-confidence |
| Main Entry: | impropriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad taste, mistake |
| Synonyms: | barbarism, blunder, faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, immodesty, impudence, incongruity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorum, inelegance, rudeness, slip*, solecism, unseemliness, unsuitability, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| Antonyms: | correctness, propriety, suitability, tastefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indecency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity, vulgarity |
| Synonyms: | bawdiness, coarseness, crudity, drunkenness, evil, foulness, grossness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, incivility, indecorum, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, offense, outrageousness, pornography, ribaldry, smuttiness, unseemliness, vileness |
| Antonyms: | chastity, cleanness, decency, modesty, purity, virtue |
| Main Entry: | obscenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency, immorality; vulgarism |
| Synonyms: | X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, wrong |
| Antonyms: | cleanness, decency, innocence, morality, propriety, purity, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | pride |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrogance, self-importance |
| Synonyms: | airs, assumption, big-headedness, cockiness, conceit, condescension, contumely, disdain, disdainfulness, egoism, egotism, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, huff, immodesty, insolence, loftiness, narcissism, overconfidence, patronage, pragmatism, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, proud flesh, self-exaltation, self-love, smugness, snobbery, superbity, superciliousness, swagger, swelled head, vainglory, vanity |
| Antonyms: | humility, modesty, shyness, timidity |
| Main Entry: | swelled head |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inflated self-opinion |
| Synonyms: | big head, cockiness, immodesty, large hat size, stuck-upness, swelled-headedness |
| Main Entry: | ego trip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | egotism |
| Synonyms: | arrogance, boastfulness, bragging, conceit, egoism, immodesty, narcissism, pride, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-aggrandizement, self-centeredness, self-praise, selfishness, vainglory, vainness, vanity |
| Main Entry: | egotism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-importance |
| Synonyms: | arrogance, boastfulness, bragging, conceit, egoism, immodesty, narcissism, pride, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-aggrandizement, self-centeredness, self-praise, selfishness, vainglory, vainness, vanity |
| Notes: | egoism is an attempt to get excessive personal recognition for yourself while egotism is an exaggerated opinion of your own importance |
| Main Entry: | grossness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
| Synonyms: | abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubrici |
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