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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one who claims full knowledge |
| Synonyms: | braggart, brain, brain*, intellectual, smart aleck, smart aleck, smart-ass, smarty-pants, walking encyclopedia, windbag, wise guy, wiseacre |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bigmouth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a loudmouth |
| Synonyms: | bag of wind, big talker, blowhard, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggart, bragger, bull artist, bull-thrower, gasbag, gossiper, grandstander, know-it-all, show-off, swelled head, trumpeter, windbag |
| Main Entry: | boastful |
| 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: | braggart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who talks boastingly |
| Synonyms: | bag of wind, big talker, big-timer, bigmouth, blatherskite, blowhard, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, bragger, egotist, exhibitionist, gasbag, gascon, grandstander, hotshot, know-it-all, peacock, ranter, raver, show-off, strutter, swaggerer, swashbuckler, swelled head, trumpeter, windbag |
| Main Entry: | cocky/cocksure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-assured, full of oneself |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, brash, bumptious, certain, conceited, confident, egotistical, hotdogging, hotshot, hubristic, know-it-all, lordly, nervy, overconfident, overweening, positive, presumptuous, self-confident, smart aleck, smart guy, smarty, smarty pants, sure, swaggering, swollen-headed, vain, wise guy |
| Antonyms: | humble, modest, uncertain, unself-confident, unsure |
| 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: | egghead |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intellectual |
| Synonyms: | bluestocking, bookworm, brain*, geek*, genius, highbrow, know-it-all, longhair, rocket scientist, scholar, thinker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | self-centered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absorbed with oneself |
| Synonyms: | egocentric, egoistic, egomaniacal, egotistic, egotistical, grandstanding, having a swelled head, independent, inward-looking, know-it-all, narcissistic, on an ego trip, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-involved, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient, selfish, stuck on oneself, wrapped up with oneself |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, giving, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | self-confident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secure with oneself |
| Synonyms: | assured, fearless, hotdog, hotshot, know-it-all, poised, sanguine, self-assured, self-reliant, sure of oneself, undoubtful |
| Antonyms: | humble, insecure, meek, unself-confident, unsure |
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