Self-important

Definition: Self-important

Self-important

Adjective

1. Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock".

Date "self-important" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

Synonyms: Self-important

Synonyms: arrogant (adj), chesty (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Self-important

English words defined with "self-important": To feel one's oats. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Why don't you make another speech, you self-important, deficient little man. All you ever do is talk (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Balsamic Dreams: A Short but Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Robert Novak	You know, I think Dennis Hastert is the least pompous, self-important speaker I have seen in Congress. He kind of brushed off Gephardt with a light touch. But it's a tough job in this very partisan Washington we're in today.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Self-important" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-important" is used about 51 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%	51	47,619

Language		Translations for "self-important"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مغرور (allured, arrogant, cocky, conceited, dazzled, deceived, deluded, fooled, haughty, lured, misled, overweening, popinjay, proud, self-conceited, snobbish, vain, vainglorious), ‏معجب بنفسه (conceited, overbearing, overweening, smug, vain), ‏مختال (vain, vainglorious). (various references)

Chinese		自夸 (Brag, Bragged, Bragging). (various references)

French		suffisant, vaniteux. (various references)

German		selbstbewusst (assertive, proud, self confident, self conscious, self-assured, self-aware). (various references)

Greek		φαντασμένοσ (bumptious, cocky, conceited, coxcomb, hoity toity, jackanapes, ladida, opinionated, priggish, self-conceited, smug, snobbish, snooty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy), αυτάρεσκοσ (complacent, self-complacent, self-satisfied, smug). (various references)

Hungarian		gőgös (arrogant, contemptuous, flown with pride, haughty, high and mighty, lofty, overweening, stuck-up, supercilious, to blow up with pride). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		独り善がり (complacent, conceited, self-satisfied). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひとりよがり (complacent, conceited, self-satisfied). (various references)

Manx		postyragh (bully, bullying, hectoring). (various references)

Pig Latin		elf-importantsay.(various references)

Portuguese		cheio de si (cock-a-hoop). (various references)

Romanian		plin de sine (bumptious, consequential, fatuous, pompous, portentous, puffy, self-conceited), orgolios (conceited, proud-spirited, vain, vainglorious), încrezut (arrogant, assertive, bumptious, cocksure, cocky, conceited, high minded, jackanapes, opinioned, presuming, presumptuous, self confident, self-conceited, stuck up, supercilious, uppish, vain). (various references)

Russian		важничающий (consequential, Jack in office, sidy). (various references)

Spanish		presumido (attitudinizer, boastful, cocksure, conceited, hoity toity, pompous, poseur, presumptuous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self-assertive, self-conceited, show off, smug, snooty, stuck up, vain, vainglorious). (various references)

Swedish		viktig (bumptious, burdensome, essential, grave, heavy, important, key, material, onerous, operative, serious, significant, weighty), dryg (ample, bumptious, compact, hard, heavy, large, lasting, liberal), beskäftig (busy, fussy, meddlesome, officious). (various references)

Turkish		kendini birşey sanan (self-assertive, self-righteous), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, 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-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). (various references)

Ukrainian		зарозумілий (arrogant, audacious, contemptuous, dogmatic, dogmatical, domineering, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, lordly, overbearing, overly, overweening, proud, self-conceited, self-explanatory, snooty, stately, stiff necked, stuck up, topping, upstage), пихатий (arrogant, assuming, bloated, cavalier, cockish, conceited, foppish, haughty, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, high-hearted, hoity toity, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, overweening, portentous, puffed up, ritzy, side, solemn, vain). (various references)

Vietnamese		lên mặt ta đây; tự cho l� quan trọng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "self-important" (pronounced 'Self`-im*por"tant'): Amplectant, Blatant, Flotant, Gestant, humectant, important, Montant, Natant, Nutant, Octant, Pregustant, reluctant, Remontant, Reptant, Restant, Saltant, Sectant, sextant, Spectant, statant, supernatant. (additional references)

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Self-important

Definition: Self-important

Self-important

Adjective

Synonyms: Self-important

Crosswords: Self-important

Modern Usage: Self-important

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Usage Frequency: Self-important

Modern Translation: Self-important

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