self-important
self-important adjective: having, or behaving as if having, too high an opinion of one's own importance.
Adjective
self-important (comparative more self-important, superlative most self-important)
- Having, or behaving as if having, too high an opinion of one's own importance.
- Near-synonym: self-entitled
- The assistant manager was a self-important fellow who strutted about the office barking instructions.
- Synonyms:
- conceited, haughty, pompous, hoity-toity, turgescent, self-entitled
- Antonyms:
- self-deprecating
self-important meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog
self-important in Tamil
- இறுமாப்புணர்ச்சியுடைய, ஆரவாரப்பகட்டுடைய
self-important in Malayalam
- arrogant, conceited, bumptious
- അഹംഭാവമുള്ള, ഗർവ്വുള്ള, അഹങ്കാരമുള്ള, ദുർമ്മദ, ദുരഹങ്കാരമുള്ള, ധാർഷ്ട്യമുള്ള
self-important in Tagalog
- having too high an opinion of one's own importance
- paimportante, papampam
Synonyms of self-important
Antonyms
Forms of self-important
| comparative | more self-important |
|---|---|
| superlative | most self-important |
Origin of self-important
From self- + important.
Words formed from self-important
Questions about self-important
- What does self-important mean?
- Self-important means having, or behaving as if having, too high an opinion of one's own importance.
- What is self-important in Tamil?
- Self-important in Tamil is இறுமாப்புணர்ச்சியுடைய, ஆரவாரப்பகட்டுடைய. See Self-important meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is self-important?
- Self-important is an adjective.
Words near self-important in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-important (page history and authors); self-important (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); self-important (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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