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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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: | egocentric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking very highly of oneself |
| Synonyms: | conceited, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistic, egotistical, individualist, individualistic, megalomaniac, narcissistic, pompous, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-concerned, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-loving, self-serving, selfish, stuck-up, vainglorious, wrapped up in oneself |
| Antonyms: | altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, selfless, shy, submissive, timid, unassuming |
| 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: | narcissistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerned only with oneself |
| Synonyms: | conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-centered, self-involved, self-loving, stuck-up, vain, vainglorious |
| Antonyms: | outgoing, sacrificing, unselfish |
| 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: | pretentious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | snobbish, conceited |
| Synonyms: | affected, arty, assuming, aureate, big*, bombastic, chichi*, conspicuous, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, high-sounding, highfaluting, hollow, imposing, inflated, jazzy, la-di-da, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overambitious, overblown, pompous, puffed up, put-on, rhetorical, showy, specious, splashy, stilted, swank, too-too, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious |
| Antonyms: | humble, modest, unconceited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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