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synonyms for self important

  • aloof
  • bossy
  • cavalier
  • cocky
  • haughty
  • imperious
  • pompous
  • presumptuous
  • pretentious
  • smug
  • vain
  • assuming
  • audacious
  • autocratic
  • biggety
  • bragging
  • cheeky
  • cold-shoulder
  • conceited
  • contemptuous
  • cool
  • disdainful
  • domineering
  • egotistic
  • high-and-mighty
  • high-handed
  • insolent
  • know-it-all
  • lordly
  • on an ego trip
  • overbearing
  • peremptory
  • proud
  • puffed up
  • scornful
  • self-important
  • smarty
  • smarty-pants
  • sniffy
  • snippy
  • snooty
  • snotty
  • stuck up
  • supercilious
  • superior
  • swaggering
  • uppity
  • egocentric
  • egoistical
  • self-centered
  • conceited
  • egotistical
  • narcissistic
  • pompous
  • puffed up
  • self-absorbed
  • self-important
  • self-involved
  • selfish
  • self-seeking
  • self-serving
  • smug
  • stuck-up
  • vain
  • vainglorious
On this page you'll find 773 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to self important, such as: aloof, bossy, cavalier, cocky, haughty, and imperious.

antonyms for self important

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  • humble
  • modest
  • shy
  • timid
  • unsure
  • meek
  • servile
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                        How to use self important in a sentence

                        But I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.
                        MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
                        Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
                        PEARLS OF THOUGHTMATURIN M. BALLOU
                        That the inconstancy of such notices, in cases equally important, proves they did not proceed from any such agent.
                        THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER (1801)DANIEL DEFOE
                        Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
                        CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
                        At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
                        THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
                        But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?
                        THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER (1801)DANIEL DEFOE
                        An estimation of the solids, therefore, furnishes an important clue to the functional efficiency of the kidneys.
                        A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODD
                        Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.
                        PEARLS OF THOUGHTMATURIN M. BALLOU
                        Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.
                        THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
                        These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.
                        CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
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                        OCTOBER 26, 1985
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