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1. adjectiveIf you describe someone as puffed up, you disapprove of them because they are very proud of themselves and think thatthey are very important. [disapproval] ...an insufferable woman so puffed up with her own importance. [+ with] Synonyms: swollen-headed, proud, high and mighty [informal], bigheaded [informal] More Synonyms of puffed up 2. See also puffed puffed up in British English (pʌft ʌp) adjective1. if you describe someone as puffed up, you disapprove of them because they are very proud of themselves and think that they are very important He was too puffed up with his own importance, too blinded by vanity to accept theirverdict on him. 2. another name for puffed (sense 1) Synonyms of 'puffed up'swollen-headed, proud, high and mighty, bigheaded More Synonyms of puffed up He was too puffed up with his own importance. Synonyms swollen-headed high and mighty (informal) full of yourself Opposites modest , humble , self-effacing Additional synonymsWhat an arrogant, bigheaded bully. Synonyms boastful, arrogant, swaggering, bragging, cocky, vaunting, conceited, puffed-up, bumptious, immodest, crowing, overconfident, vainglorious, swollen-headed, egotistic, full of yourself, too big for your boots or breeches Definition haughty or arrogant She has a reputation for being proud and arrogant. Synonyms conceited, vain, arrogant, stuck-up (informal), lordly, imperious, narcissistic, overbearing, snooty (informal), haughty, snobbish, egotistical, self-satisfied, disdainful, self-important, presumptuous, boastful, supercilious, high and mighty (informal), toffee-nosed (slang, British), orgulous (archaic), too big for your boots or breeches The players have become too big for their boots. Synonyms overconfident, arrogant, brash, cocky, presumptuous, bumptious, cocksure, hubristic, full of yourself- puff
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