vainglorious as an adjective: - 1
vainglorious
adjective
1 vainglorious
Feeling self-importance.
synonyms: big, swelled.
Roget 884:
boasting
etc.
v.;
magniloquent,
flaming,
Thrasonic,
stilted,
gasconading,
braggart,
boastful,
pretentious,
soi-disant [Fr.];
vainglorious
etc.
(conceited)
880;
highfalutin,
highfaluting†;
spread-eagle [U.S.].
elate,
elated;
jubilant,
triumphant,
exultant;
in high feather;
flushed,
flushed with victory;
cock-a-hoop;
on stilts.
vaunted
etc.
v..
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Roget 878:
dignified;
stately;
proud,
proud-crested;
lordly,
baronial;
lofty-minded;
highsouled,
high-minded,
high-mettled†,
high-handed,
high-plumed,
high-flown,
high-toned.
haughty lofty,
high,
mighty,
swollen,
puffed up,
flushed,
blown;
vainglorious;
purse-proud,
fine;
proud as a peacock,
proud as Lucifer;
bloated with pride.
supercilious,
disdainful,
bumptious,
magisterial,
imperious,
high and mighty,
overweening,
consequential;
arrogant
etc.
885;
unblushing
etc.
880.
stiff,
stiff-necked;
starch;
perked stuck-up;
in buckram,
strait-laced;
prim
etc.
(affected)
855.
on one's dignity,
on one's high horses,
on one's tight ropes,
on one's high ropes;
on stilts;
en grand seigneur [Fr.].
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Roget 880:
vain,
vain as a peacock,
proud as a peacock;
conceited,
overweening,
pert,
forward;
vainglorious,
high-flown;
ostentatious
etc.
882;
puffed up,
inflated,
flushed.
self-satisfied,
self-confident,
self-sufficient,
self-flattering,
self-admiring,
self-applauding,
self-glorious,
self-opinionated;
entente
etc.
(wrongheaded)
481;
wise in one's own conceit,
pragmatical†,
overwise†,
pretentious,
priggish;
egotistic,
egotistical;
soi-disant
etc.
(boastful)
884 [Fr.];
arrogant
etc.
885.
unabashed,
unblushing;
unconstrained,
unceremonious;
free and easy.
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Moby thesaurus: Gascon, boastful, boasting, braggart, bragging, complacent, conceited, consequential, disdainful, fanfaron, fanfaronading, gasconading, insolent, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, overproud, overweening, self-admiring, self-advertising, self-applauding, self-approving, self-assuming, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-endeared, self-esteeming, self-flattering, self-glorious, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important, self-lauding, self-loving, self-respecting, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, self-vaunting, smug, stuck-up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, vain, vaporing, vaunting ... show more.
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