vainglorious

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

vainglorious
    adj 1: feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had
           a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride" [syn: {big},
           {swelled}, {vainglorious}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Vainglorious \Vain`glo"ri*ous\, a.
   Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
   "Arrogant and vainglorious expression." --Sir M. Hale. --
   {Vain`glo"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Vain`glo"ri*ous*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

52 Moby Thesaurus words for "vainglorious":
      Gascon, boastful, boasting, braggart, bragging, complacent,
      conceited, consequential, disdainful, fanfaron, fanfaronading,
      gasconading, insolent, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic,
      narcistic, overproud, overweening, self-admiring, self-advertising,
      self-applauding, self-approving, self-assuming, self-complacent,
      self-conceited, self-congratulating, self-congratulatory,
      self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-endeared,
      self-esteeming, self-flattering, self-glorious, self-gratulating,
      self-gratulatory, self-important, self-lauding, self-loving,
      self-respecting, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, self-vaunting,
      smug, stuck-up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, vain,
      vaporing, vaunting

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