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EGOTISTICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does egotistical mean?
• EGOTISTICAL (adjective)
The adjective EGOTISTICAL has 2 senses:
1. characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance
2. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Familiarity information: EGOTISTICAL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance
Synonyms:
egotistic; egotistical; narcissistic; self-loving
Similar:
selfish (concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others)
Derivation:
egotist (a conceited and self-centered person)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Synonyms:
conceited; egotistic; egotistical; self-conceited; swollen; swollen-headed; vain
Context example:
vain about her clothes
Similar:
proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)
Derivation:
egotist (a conceited and self-centered person)
Context examples
I will try to; but you will forgive me if I seem egotistical.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of those who offer it; but that is the sort of pity native to callous, selfish hearts; it is a hybrid, egotistical pain at hearing of woes, crossed with ignorant contempt for those who have endured them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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