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Egotistic

Egotistic \E`go*tis"tic\, Egotistical \E`go*tis"tic*al\, a. Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism; having an exaggerated view of one's own importance or good qualities.

Syn: egotistic; narcissistic; self-loving; conceited; vain; self-important; opinionated.

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egotistic

a. 1 egotistical. 2 egoistic.

WordNet
egotistic
  1. adj. characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance [syn: egotistical, narcissistic, self-loving]

  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" [syn: conceited, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain]

Usage examples of "egotistic".

Very egotistic and willful in his youth, careless of his affairs, and an imprudent gambler, at thirty years of age he had not yet settled down.

Johnson was vain, loquacious, and offensively egotistic: Jackson, on the other hand, was proud, reserved, and with such abounding self-respect as excluded egotism.

Ashamed of my perpetually agile brain, and its egotistic pleasure in analyzing who was persuading whom, which way political power was flowing, who was up and who was on his way down.

Here we come clodhopping in, intending to misuse her for our egotistic goals.

The servants in charge would not acept any money, and I saw in the incident a proof of that hospitality for which the English are famed, although they are at the same time profoundly egotistic.

I realized that within me was the capacity to become another Moriarty, and I had experienced quite enough of the egotistic exhilaration which my ability to sway an audience gave me.

The self-sufficiency of egotistic natures was never more fully shown than in the expositions of the worthlessness and wretchedness of their fellowcreatures given by the dogmatists who have "gone back," as the vulgar phrase is, on their race, their own flesh and blood.