swell-headed adj

swell-headed adj
[ˌswɛl'hɛdɪd]
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  • swell-headed — adj AmE informal thinking that you are more important or clever than you really are = ↑bigheaded …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • swell-head —  Conceited person, adj. swell headed …   A concise dictionary of English slang

  • swelled head — {n.}, {informal} A feeling that you are very important or more important than you really are. * /When John won the race, he got a swelled head./ * /Pretty girls shouldn t get a swelled head about it./ [swell headed] {adj. phr.} * /After he was… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • swelled head — {n.}, {informal} A feeling that you are very important or more important than you really are. * /When John won the race, he got a swelled head./ * /Pretty girls shouldn t get a swelled head about it./ [swell headed] {adj. phr.} * /After he was… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • swelled\ head — noun informal A feeling that you are very important or more important than you really are. When John won the race, he got a swelled head. Pretty girls shouldn t get a swelled head about it. swell headed adj. phr. After he was elected captain of… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • conceited — adj self important, self esteeming, self admiring, self worshiping, self centered, egocentric, narcissistic, Sl. stuck or hung up on oneself; haughty, supercilious, disdainful, snobbish, Inf. stuck up; proud, overproud, overweening, vain,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • proud — adj 1. content, contented, satisfied, gratified, pleased, well pleased, Inf. pleased as punch; glad, delighted, happy, sunny, cheerful; complacent, smug, self satisfied, self contented, pleased with oneself, like the cat that swallowed the canary …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • puffy — adj 1. gusty, blasty, blustery, squally; windy, breezy, airy. 2. short winded, panting, blowing, out of breath, breathless, winded, blown, exhausted, gasping, wheezing. 3. inflated, Obs. sufflated, swollen, distended, turgid, tumid, bulging,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • self-important — adj proud, conceited, egocentric, narcissistic, self centered, self admiring, self esteeming, Sl. stuck or hung up on oneself; vain, vainglorious, egotistical, puffed up, inflated, swollen, swell headed, Inf. big headed; arrogant, fastuous,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • big — adj 1. large, huge, enormous, Chiefly Brit. Inf. whacking, prodigious, immense, colossal, monstrous; gigantic, giant, tremendous, Brobdingnagian, towering, tall, overgrown; great, vast, extensive, spacious, capatious, voluminous; grand, grandiose …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • boastful — adj bragging, braggart, crowing, vaunting, blustering, vaporing, blowing, fanfaronading; proud, overproud, vain, vainglorious, egotistical, conceited, swell headed, swollen, inflated, puffed up; cocky, overbearing, overweening, Scot. vaunty;… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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