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adjective
- 1. having an exaggerated sense of one's own value or importance: "a self-important bureaucrat"
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SELF-IMPORTANT definition: 1. believing that you are more important or have a higher value than other people: 2. believing…. Learn more.
The meaning of SELF-IMPORTANT is having or showing self-importance. How to use self-important in a sentence.
Self-important definition: having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.. See examples of SELF-IMPORTANT used in a sentence.
Synonyms for SELF-IMPORTANT: smug, arrogant, egotistical, proud, vain, egoistical, vainglorious, conceited; Antonyms of SELF-IMPORTANT: humble, modest, egoless, diffident, timid, self-critical, meek, unassertive.
SELF-IMPORTANT meaning: 1. believing that you are more important or have a higher value than other people: 2. believing…. Learn more.
If you say that someone is self-important, you disapprove of them because they behave as if they are more important than they really are. [ disapproval ] He was self-important, vain and ignorant.
5 days ago · feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
thinking that you are more important than other people synonym arrogant. He was a self-important little man. She was not at all the self-important celebrity I’d read about.
self-im·por·tant·ly, adverb Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024 British Dictionary definitions for self-important
The meaning of SELF-IMPORTANCE is an exaggerated estimate of one's own importance : self-conceit.
