bighead

Thân thiện

A farmer examines a sheep with symptoms of bighead.

Definition

Noun: 1. An exaggerated sense of one's own importance or ability; conceit: A state of being overly proud or arrogant. 2. Any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck: A term used in veterinary medicine for conditions causing swelling in these areas.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Conceit):
  • His recent promotion gave him a terrible bighead; he won't listen to anyone's advice anymore.
  • Don't get a bighead just because you won one game.
• Noun (Animal Disease):
  • The farmer treated the sheep for bighead, a condition caused by a mineral deficiency.
  • Veterinarians warn that bighead in horses can be a serious ailment.

Advanced Usage

• "To have a bighead": To be conceited or arrogant.
  • She's started to have a bighead since she became the team captain.
• "To give someone a bighead": To cause someone to become conceited, often through excessive praise.
  • All that flattery is going to give him a bighead.

Variants and Related Words

• Bigheaded (adjective): Conceited, arrogant.
  • He became so bigheaded after his success.
• Bigheadedness (noun): The quality of being conceited.
  • Her bigheadedness made her unpopular with her colleagues.

Synonyms

• Conceit: Excessive pride in oneself.
• Arrogance: An attitude of superiority and self-importance.
• Egotism: The practice of talking and thinking about oneself excessively.
• Swollen head (idiom): A state of being conceited.

Antonyms

• Humility: A modest view of one's own importance.
• Modesty: The quality of being unassuming in the estimation of one's abilities.

Related Idioms

• "To have a swelled/big head": Synonymous with "to have a bighead"; to be conceited.
  • All that praise from the media has given him a swelled head.

Học thuật

Noun

1. any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck