self-important
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.03 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having, or behaving as if having, too high an opinion of one's own importance.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: self-entitled"
- "The assistant manager was a self-important fellow who strutted about the office barking instructions."
- "But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English important English self-important From self- + important.
Inflected Forms
more self-important (comparative)
most self-important (superlative)