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Definitions: Egotistic |
EgotisticAdjective1. Characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance. 2. Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "egotistic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references) |
Synonyms: EgotisticSynonyms: conceited (adj), egotistical (adj), narcissistic (adj), self-conceited (adj), self-loving (adj), swollen (adj), swollen-headed (adj), vain (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Selfishness | Adjective: selfish; self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-centered; wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical. |
Vanity | Self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated; entente; (wrongheaded); wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical, overwise, pretentious, priggish; egotistic, egotistical; soi-disant; (boastful); arrogant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Egotistic |
| English words defined with "egotistic": Overween. (references) |
| "Egotistic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Egotistic" is used about 5 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
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 |
egotistic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "egotistic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 自负 (Egotism, Egotistical, Self-conceit, self-conceited, vain). (various references) | |
German | geltungsbedürftig. (various references) | |
Hungarian | egotista (egotist, egotistical), saját énjébe szédült, saját énjébe merült, mindent önmagára vonatkoztató. (various references) | |
Indonesian | sombong (assertive, bigheaded, boastful, haughty, plume, proud, uppish, vain, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 自己中心 (selfish), エコロジー運動 (ecological movement, Edison, ego, egotism, egotist, 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 | エゴイスティック , じ"ちゅうし" (selfish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egotisticay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | egotista (egoist, egotistical). (various references) | |
Spanish | egotístico (egotistical). (various references) | |
Swedish | egocentrisk (egocentric, egotistical, self centred). (various references) | |
Ukranian | самозакоханий (egotist, egotistical, nose-wise, vainglorious), дуже зарозумілий (egotistical). (various references) | |
Welsh | myfi%ol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "egotistic": egotistical, egotistically. (additional references) | |
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"Egotistic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agathistic, egotisic, megatastic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-i-o-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: egoistic, osteitic. | |
-2 letters: egotist, scottie. | |
-3 letters: cestoi, cities, egoist, gestic, iciest, octets, otitic, otitis, stogie. | |
-4 letters: cesti, cites, coset, cosie, cotes, escot, octet, stoic, titis, toits, totes. | |
-5 letters: cigs, cist, cite, cogs, cost, cote, cots, egis, egos, etic, gest, gets, gies, gist, gits, goes, ices, otic, scot, sect, sego, sett, sice, site, stet, tegs, test, tets, tics, ties, titi, tits, toes, togs, toit, tost, tote, tots. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-i-o-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: egotistical. | |
+3 letters: contiguities, geoscientist, histogenetic. | |
+4 letters: discontenting, domesticating, egotistically, excogitations, geoscientists, gesticulation, introspecting. | |
+5 letters: bacteriologist, coinvestigator, cytogeneticist, dialectologist, gesticulations, mitogenicities, reconstituting, toxigenicities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 67 6F 74 69 73 74 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). --. --- - .. ... - .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100111 01101111 01110100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E g o t i s t i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0067 006F 0074 0069 0073 0074 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)397381867585867569 |
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