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Definition: Egotistical |
EgotisticalAdjective1. 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 "egotistical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
Synonyms: EgotisticalSynonyms: conceited (adj), egotistic (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). |
Misanthropy | Adjective: misanthropic, antisocial, unpatriotic; egotistical;(selfish); morose; a. |
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: Egotistical |
| English words defined with "egotistical": Autophoby ♦ conceited ♦ egomaniac, egotistic, egotistically ♦ self-conceited, selfishly, swollen, swollen-headed ♦ vain. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "egotistical": Preacher. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Because I'm a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins) Let's see how long it takes her to hogtie this sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins) You're a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. (reference) |
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| "Egotistical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Egotistical" is used about 55 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% | 55 | 45,713 |
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 |
egotistical | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "egotistical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 自负 (Egotism, Egotistic, Self-conceit, self-conceited, vain). (various references) | |
German | egoistisch (egoistic, egoistical, egoistically, selfish, selfishly), ichbezogen (self centered). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egotista (egotist, egotistic). (various references) | |
Indonesian | angkara (greedy, insolent, self centered). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egotisticalay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | egoísta (base, egoist, egoistic, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-centred, selfish, self-seeker, self-seeking, small). (various references) | |
Russian | эгоистичный (egocentric, egoistic, hoggish, self centered, self centred, self-centred, selfish). (various references) | |
Spanish | egotístico (egotistic), ególatra (egotist, narcissist, self-worshipping). (various references) | |
Swedish | egoistisk (egoistic, egoistical, egotistic, piggish, selfish, self-seeking), egocentrisk (egocentric, egotistic, self centred), inkrökt. (various references) | |
Turkish | egoist (calculating, egoist, egoistic, egotist, selfish, self-seeker), sürekli kendinden söz eden, kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), bencil (calculating, egoist, egoistic, hoggish, piggish, self centered, self centred, self-absorbed, selfish, self-seeker, thoughtless). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самозакоханий (egotist, egotistic, nose-wise, vainglorious), дуже зарозумілий (egotistic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "egotistical": egotistically. (additional references) | |
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"Egotistical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: egotestical, egotiotical, egotisical, egotisitcal, egotitiscal, egotystical. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "egotistical" (pronounced e'guti"stikul) |
| 9 | -u t i" s t i k u l | statistical. |
| 7 | -i" s t i k u l | logistical, mystical. |
| 6 | -s t i k u l | acoustical, ecclesiastical, testicle. |
| 5 | -t i k u l | alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, astronautical, critical, dialectical, elliptical, fanatical, geopolitical, heretical, hypercritical, hypocritical, identical, tactical, mathematical, nonpolitical, optical, pharmaceutical, problematical, sabbatical, theoretical, uncritical, vertical, viatical. |
| 4 | -i k u l | archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, categorical, cervical, chronological, classical, comical, conical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, graphical, gynecological, helical, historical, hysterical, icicle, ideological, illogical, immunological, spherical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, technical, technological, teleological, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, logical, lyrical, magical, mechanical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, morphological, musical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, popsicle, preclinical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, rhetorical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, virological, whimsical, zoological. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-l-o-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: egoistical. | |
-2 letters: cogitates, egotistic, litigates, socialite. | |
-3 letters: calottes, ciliates, coaliest, cogitate, cottages, egoistic, gestical, latigoes, lattices, litigate, logicise, logistic, osteitic, otalgies, silicate, societal, totalise. | |
-4 letters: aiglets, aloetic, altoist, cagiest, calotte, catties, celosia, ciliate, citolas, citoles, colitis, costate, cottage, egotist, elastic, elicits, elitist, galiots, gelatos, gestalt, glottic, glottis, goalies, iolites, isolate, italics, laciest, lactose, laicise. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-l-o-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: egotistically, gesticulation. | |
+3 letters: bacteriologist, dialectologist, gesticulations. | |
+4 letters: bacteriologists, dialectologists. | |
+5 letters: antitechnologies. | |
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