bigheaded

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bigheaded

A man with a bigheaded attitude ignores his coworkers.

Definition
  1. 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.
bigheaded

A man with a bigheaded attitude ignores his coworkers.

Adjective
  1. (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