bigheaded
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Excessively conceited or arrogant: The word describes a person who has an exaggeratedly high opinion of themselves, often leading to boastful or dismissive behavior towards others. It is primarily used in informal, colloquial contexts.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- After winning the award, he became so bigheaded that he stopped listening to his teammates.
- Don't be so bigheaded about your promotion; stay humble.
Advanced Usage
- "to get bigheaded": to become arrogant or conceited, often as a result of success or praise.
- She started to get bigheaded after all the media attention.
Variants and Related Words
- Bighead (n, informal): a person who is bigheaded.
- He's such a bighead, always talking about his own achievements.
Synonyms
- Conceited: excessively proud of oneself.
- Arrogant: having an exaggerated sense of one's own importance.
- Cocky: overly self-confident in a brash or irritating way.
- Full of oneself (idiomatic): thinking only of oneself in a conceited way.
Related Phrases
- To have a big head (idiom): to be conceited or arrogant.
- All that flattery has given him a big head.
Adjective
- (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
- a snotty little scion of a degenerate family-Laurent Le Sage
- they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety