英语词汇“self-important”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

self-important

/ˌsɛlfɪmˈpɔːt(ə)nt

adjective

Having an exaggerated sense of one’s own value or importance: a self-important bureaucrat...

The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings.
As if concerned that his rants may appear too smug or self-important, he tempers them with spoonfuls of self-loathing.
It was funny that two former fashion victims now find their former world overbearing and self-important.

Synonyms

conceited, arrogant, bumptious, self-assertive, full of oneself, puffed up, swollen-headed, pompous, overbearing, (self-)opinionated, cocky, swaggering, strutting, presumptuous, forward, imperious, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, sententious, grandiose, vain, haughty, overweening, proud, egotistic, egotistical;

supercilious, condescending, patronizing

informal snooty, uppity, uppish

Derivatives

self-importantly

adverb ...

I think that he is a conventionally PC - and self-importantly ascetic - clergyman.
Young peacocks, whose train is only half grown, strut self-importantly around a bevy of shawl-clad females, who ignore them totally.
On practically every flight these days you'll encounter cell-phone maniacs, barking self-importantly into their little chunks of plastic.

单词	self-important
释义	self-important /ˌsɛlfɪmˈpɔːt(ə)nt / adjective Having an exaggerated sense of one’s own value or importance: a self-important bureaucrat... The sobriety of the streets is relieved by bridges with self-important towers or slightly pompous lions and griffins with gilded wings. As if concerned that his rants may appear too smug or self-important, he tempers them with spoonfuls of self-loathing. It was funny that two former fashion victims now find their former world overbearing and self-important. Synonyms conceited, arrogant, bumptious, self-assertive, full of oneself, puffed up, swollen-headed, pompous, overbearing, (self-)opinionated, cocky, swaggering, strutting, presumptuous, forward, imperious, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, sententious, grandiose, vain, haughty, overweening, proud, egotistic, egotistical; supercilious, condescending, patronizing informal snooty, uppity, uppish Derivatives self-importantly adverb ... I think that he is a conventionally PC - and self-importantly ascetic - clergyman. Young peacocks, whose train is only half grown, strut self-importantly around a bevy of shawl-clad females, who ignore them totally. On practically every flight these days you'll encounter cell-phone maniacs, barking self-importantly into their little chunks of plastic.
随便看	unfailingly unfailingness unfair unfairly unfairness unfaithful unfaithfully unfaithfulness unfaltering unfalteringly unfamiliar unfamiliarity unfancied unfarmed unfashionable unfashionableness unfashionably unfashioned unfasten unfathered unfatherliness unfatherly unfathomable unfathomableness unfathomably