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Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority:
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- Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority:
- Making claims, explicit or implicit, to some distinction, importance, dignity, or excellence
- Claiming that or behaving as if one is important or deserving of merit when such is not the case:
Having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompous or officious
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- Having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompous or officious
- Having, or behaving as if having, too high an opinion of one's own importance.
Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
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- Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
- Full of or due to unwarranted pride and self-importance; overbearing; haughty
- Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others:
(Archaic) Lofty; noble
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- (Archaic) Lofty; noble
- Having or showing great pride in oneself and disdain, contempt, or scorn for others; proud; arrogant; supercilious
- Scornfully and condescendingly proud.
Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth:
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- Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth:
- Feeling or showing justifiable self-respect:
- Filled with or showing excessive self-esteem:
(Obs.) Whimsical; fanciful
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- (Obs.) Whimsical; fanciful
- Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical.
- (Rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
Characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous:
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- Characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous:
- Having grandeur or magnificence; imposing; impressive
- Seeming or trying to seem very important; pompous and showy
- (Archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
- High-sounding but with little meaning.
- (Of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
Designating or of a film, usually a feature, produced for first exhibition in a commercial theater as distinguished from one made for showing first on TV, as home video, etc.
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- Designating or of a film, usually a feature, produced for first exhibition in a commercial theater as distinguished from one made for showing first on TV, as home video, etc.
- Of, relating to, or suitable for dramatic performance or the theater.
- Characteristic of the theater; dramatic; esp. (in disparagement), melodramatic, histrionic, showy, or affected
- Expanded; in a state of inflation, of abnormally increased size, amount, etc.
- Higher that the true figure
- (Figuratively) Containing excessive, meaningless words, particularly for show
Exceedingly lofty or exalted:
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- Exceedingly lofty or exalted:
- Highly pretentious or inflated:
- Extravagantly ambitious or aspiring
Using high-flown, pompous, bombastic words and expressions
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- Using high-flown, pompous, bombastic words and expressions
Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.
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- Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.
- Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic:
- Past the stage of full bloom:
Characterized by or given to ostentation.
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- Characterized by or given to ostentation.
Having to do with or celebrated by a bishop or other high-ranking prelate
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- Having to do with or celebrated by a bishop or other high-ranking prelate
- Relating to, characteristic of, or suitable for a pontiff.
- Having the pomp, dignity, or dogmatism of a pontiff; sometimes, specif., arrogant or haughty
Conservative, conventional, old-fashioned, etc.
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- Conservative, conventional, old-fashioned, etc.
- Dull and boring:
- Poorly ventilated; having little fresh air; close
Alternative spelling of highfalutin.
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- Alternative spelling of highfalutin.
egotistic
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proud
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Characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous:
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- Characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous:
- Having grandeur or magnificence; imposing; impressive
- Seeming or trying to seem very important; pompous and showy
Given to frivolity or silliness.
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- Given to frivolity or silliness.
- Haughty; arrogant; condescending
- Pretentiously self-important; pompous.
Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority:
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- Showing or betraying an attitude of superiority:
- Claiming that or behaving as if one is important or deserving of merit when such is not the case:
- Making claims, explicit or implicit, to some distinction, importance, dignity, or excellence
Displaying exaggerated dignity or self-importance; pompous.
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- Displaying exaggerated dignity or self-importance; pompous.
- To be proud
- Of or pertaining to puffs or puffiness; being pillow-like, exhibiting swelling, inflated
- Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner
- Puffed up; swollen; inflated
Having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompous or officious
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- Having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompous or officious
- Having, or behaving as if having, too high an opinion of one's own importance.
(US, informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard.
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- (US, informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical; tending to show off or hold oneself in unduly high regard.
- Pompous or pretentious:
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