Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Egotist |
EgotistNoun1. A conceited and self-centered person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "egotist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
Etymology: Egotist \E"go*tist\, noun. [Latin expression ego ending -tist for -ist. See Egotism, and compare to Egoist.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. Megaceph, chosen to serve the State In the halls of legislative debate, One day with all his credentials came To the capitol's door and announced his name. The doorkeeper looked, with a comical twist Of the face, at the eminent egotist, And said: "Go away, for we settle here All manner of questions, knotty and queer, And we cannot have, when the speaker demands To be told how every member stands, A man who to all things under the sky Assents by eternally voting 'I'.". Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: EgotistSynonyms: egoist (n), swellhead (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Misanthropy | Misanthrope, misanthropist, egotist, cynic, man hater, Timon, Diogenes. |
Selfishness | Time-pleaser, time-server; tuft-hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber, worldling; egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger, charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi, "foes to nobleness," temporizer, trimmer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Egotist |
| English words defined with "egotist": Egotize ♦ megalomaniac. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "egotist": Cat Proverbs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Egotist" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (egotist). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Alter Egotist (1966) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Egotist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Egotist" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
egotist | 7 |
egotist forum | 7 |
board ck egotist | 3 |
egotist elegant | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "egotist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | egoist (egoist, egoistic, hoggish, self centered, selfish, self-seeker, self-seeking), i vetëkënaqur (complacent, coxcombical, fatuous, jaunty, self sufficient, self-righteous, self-satisfied, smug). (various references) | |
Arabic | المتبجح (boaster, bouncer, brag, cracker, egoist, popinjay, windbag), الأناني (egoist). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самолюбец, еготист. (various references) | |
Czech | sobec (egoist, hog). (various references) | |
Farsi | خودپرست(egoist). (various references) | |
French | égotiste. (various references) | |
German | egoist (egoist). (various references) | |
Hebrew | א וכיי (egocentric, egoist). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egotista (egotistic, egotistical), önző (assertive, egocentric, politics, self-centered), önmagával eltelt ember. (various references) | |
Italian | egotista, egocentrico (egocentric, self centered, self-absorbed, self-centered person). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ナパー 弾 (big-headed, caller ID, closest to pin, knee, knee-high socks, knee-length, knowledge, knowledge engineering, licence plate, NAFTA, Namibia, Nanking, Napa Valley, napalm bomb, naphtha, Naphthalin, napkin, Naples, napoleon, napolitain, narcism, Narcisse, narcissism, narcissist, narcist, narodniki, narration, narrator, narrow silhouette, narrow-band, narrowcasting, National Leaque, navigator, Navstar, near pin, near-miss, neat, need, needle, needs, Nicaragua, nice, Nichrome, Nielsen, niobium, nonsense, nonsense comedy, nourish, nourishing cream, nourishment, number, number display, number eight, number one, number plate, numbering, numbering machine, nymphe, stuck-up person), エコロジー運動 (ecological movement, Edison, ego, egotism, egotistic, Egypt, Esaki diode, escalate, escalation, escalator, escalope, ESCAP, Eskimo, sado-masochism, Save Our Souls, science fiction, SF, shallot, sister, sketch, snail, Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, SOS). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ナルシスト (big-headed, narcist, stuck-up person), エゴイスト . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egotistay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | egotismo. (various references) | |
Romanian | egotist, egocentric (egocentric, i, self centred), individualist (individualist, individualistic). (various references) | |
Russian | самовлюбленный человек (narcissist), индивидуалист (individualist, standout). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | egotista. (various references) | |
Spanish | egotista. (various references) | |
Swedish | egocentriker (egocentric). (various references) | |
Turkish | egoist (calculating, egoist, egoistic, egotistical, selfish, self-seeker), sürekli kendinden söz eden kimse, kendini beğenmiş kimse. (various references) | |
Ukranian | індивідуаліст (individualist), самозакоханий (egotistic, egotistical, nose-wise, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người theo thuyết ta l trên hết người tự cao tự đại người ích kỷ, người theo thuyết ta l nhất. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "egotist": egotistic, egotistical, egotistically, egotists. (additional references) | |
| |
"Egotist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agathist, agotist, egoiste, ekofisk, genotext, peggottys, teoctist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "egotist" (pronounced ē"guti'st) |
| 5 | -u t i' s t | corporatist, dramatist, pragmatist. |
| 4 | -t i' s t | baptist, chartist, cutest, defeatist, flutist, practiced, statist. |
| 3 | -i' s t | absurdist, astrophysicist, backlist, bassist, blacklist, careerist, centrist, checklist, cheesiest, chemist, clearest, climatologist, collectivist, conformist, constructionist, consumerist, costliest, counterterrorist, cubist, czarist, dualist, essayist, evangelist, expansionist, experimentalist, fatalist, flavorist, futurist, gradualist, harpist, horticulturist, humanist, jurist, lyrist, minimalist, monarchist, monetarist, moralist, nativist, nicest, nudist, optimist, optometrist, parodist, percussionist, perfectionist, pharmacologist, physicist, pinkest, podiatrist, publicist, purist, realist, recidivist, reformist, religionist, revisionist, revivalist, royalist, satanist, saxophonist, sensationalist, sexist, soloist, stylist, suffragist, terrorist, trombonist, typist, vaguest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-o-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: egoist, stogie. | |
-2 letters: toits, totes. | |
-3 letters: egis, egos, gest, gets, gies, gist, gits, goes, sego, sett, site, stet, tegs, test, tets, ties, tits, toes, togs, toit, tost, tote, tots. | |
-4 letters: ego, get, gie, git, gos, got, its, oes, ose, seg, sei, set, sit, sot, teg, tet, tie, tis, tit, toe, tog, tot. | |
-5 letters: es, et, go, is, it, oe, os, si, so, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-o-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: egotists, gothites, goutiest. | |
+2 letters: besotting, cogitates, egotistic, gestation, ghostiest, glottides, glottises, goethites, grottiest, groutiest, obtesting, pettifogs, stodgiest. | |
+3 letters: cetologist, contesting, doughtiest, epiglottis, ethologist, fetologist, gestations, ghettoizes, ghostliest, ghostwrite, gluttonies, growthiest, negotiants, negotiates, offsetting, protesting, respotting, sonnetting, stoutening, tightropes. | |
+4 letters: cetologists, coattesting, contingents, degustation, droughtiest, egotistical, ethnologist, ethologists, etymologist, excogitates, fetologists, foretasting, geobotanist, gestational, ghostwriter, ghostwrites, graptolites, integrators, jettisoning, metrologist, mignonettes, misbegotten, negotiators, osteologist, outfeasting, outglitters, outsteering, oversetting, overstating, petrologist, poltergeist, postediting, poussetting, shergottite, spotlighted, steatopygia, steatopygic, stenotyping, stilettoing, tautologies, teleologist, tetralogies, thigmotaxes, vegetations. | |
+5 letters: antiestrogen, constringent, contiguities, cytogenetics, deglutitions, degustations, deontologist, entomologist, epiglottides, epiglottises, ethnologists, etymologists, geobotanists, geoscientist, geostrategic, gesticulator, ghostwriters, ghostwritten, glutathiones, hematologist, histogenetic, housesitting, integrations, intergrowths, interrogates, investigator, legitimators, metrologists, negotiations, nematologist, nightclothes, nonstrategic, osteologists, outintrigues, outwrestling, overtightens, petrologists, pettifoggers, photosetting, poltergeists, posteditings, proglottides, registration, renegotiates, segmentation, shergottites, shortsighted, silhouetting, somersetting, steatopygias, stereotyping, stigmasterol, stonecutting, storytelling, technologist, teleologists, teratologies, teratologist, testcrossing, trimetrogons, witenagemots. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 67 6F 74 69 73 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references). --. --- - .. ... - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100111 01101111 01110100 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E g o t i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0067 006F 0074 0069 0073 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39738186758586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
