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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

enhancing or promoting one's wealth and power;

e.g. She spoke in a self-aggrandizing manner about her wealth and success.

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Similar Words

Affected

Aggressive

Airy

Arrogant

Assertive

Audacious

Bold

Braggart

Brassy

Bumptious

Cavalier

Cheeky

Cocky

Complacent

Conceited

Confident

Disdainful

Egotistical

Flamboyant

Flashy

Forward

Garish

Gaudy

Grandiose

Haughty

Hifalutin

High-flown

High-handed

High-hat

High-minded

High-sounding

High-toned

Highfalutin

Hoity-toity

Imperious

Important

Impudent

Insolent

La-di-da

Lordly

Ostentatious

Overweening

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Proud

Rude

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-assured

Self-centered

Self-dramatizing

Self-glorifying

Self-important

Self-obsessed

Self-satisfied

Sententious

Showy

Smug

Snippy

Snobbish

Snobby

Splashy

Stuck-up

Supercilious

Superior

Sure

Uppity

Vain

Vainglorious

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Opposite Words

Bashful

Demure

Diffident

Down-to-earth

Homely

Humble

Lowly

Meek

Modest

Mousy

Overmodest

Passive

Quiet

Reserved

Retiring

Shy

Timid

Unassertive

Unassuming

Unpretentious

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Related Words

Affected

Grandiose

Hifalutin

High-minded

Highfalutin

La-di-da

Ostentatious

Pompous

Pretentious

Snippy

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