vainglorious

Speech parts

1. vainglorious - Adjective

2. vainglorious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

BIG swelled proud vain inflated arrogant lofty pretentious pompous overbearing ostentatious haughty conceited cocky egotistical
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Antonyms

meek beneficent bashful modest charitable humble
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Examples

Fathers and guardians, bishops of our Church, you ought to minister to the poor, or rather to Christ in them, and not to seek after vanities. But now you act quite contrary to this; and are vainglorious and avaricious beyond all other men. Charlemagne

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. Camille Paglia

I am not deceived. It is the hardest of worlds to make real. Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword. David Mitchell (author)

I will be succinct, eschewing vainglorious hyperbole. Michael Shea

A piece of vainglorious sub-industrial steel gigantism, signifying nothing.... [artists] may be imaginative... not more than a poet. Poets do not make millions. Anish Kapoor

too big for his britches Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

vainesse vainful vaingloriness vaingloriously vaingloriousness vainglory