Synonyms for self-important
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Arrogant
arrogant, pompous, egotistical, smug, conceited, snooty informal, hubristic, vain, presumptuous, bombastic, haughty, cocky, overweening, hoity-toity, proud, chesty, important dated
Other
self-entitled, turgescent formal rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having, or behaving as if having, too high an opinion of one's own importance.
Near-synonym: self-entitled
Example sentences
- arrogant I don't need the validation of an arrogant person.
- smug If you were less smug, you might have more friends.
- pompous It's much too pompous for such a trivial thing.
- egotistical Santiago is too arrogant and egotistical to apologize.
By length
- 4 letters
- vain1, smug1
- 5 letters
- proud1, cocky2
- 6 letters
- snooty2, chesty
- 7 letters
- pompous2, haughty2
- 8 letters
- arrogant3
- 9 letters
- important3, conceited3, bombastic3, hubristic
- 10 letters
- turgescent
- 11 letters
- egotistical5, overweening
- 12 letters
- presumptuous4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cocky2 = 2 syllables).