What is another word for vainglorious?

Pronunciation: [ve͡ɪŋɡlˈɔːɹɪəs] (IPA)

Vainglorious is an adjective that often describes someone who is excessively proud or vain. Some synonyms for the word include boastful, conceited, egotistical, narcissistic, and self-aggrandizing. These terms all suggest a person who excessively values themselves and seeks to be admired and praised by others. Other synonyms include pretentious, pompous, showy, grandiose, and ostentatious, which indicate a tendency to show off or make an extravagant display of their achievements or status. When used in a negative context, vainglorious often implies that a person's self-importance is unwarranted or excessive, and masks their insecurities or lack of true accomplishments.

What are the hypernyms for Vainglorious?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for vainglorious?

Vainglorious is a term used to describe a person who is excessively proud or arrogant. Some of the antonyms for vainglorious include humble, modest, unassuming, meek, and self-effacing. These words are used to describe someone who does not seek attention or praise from others and prefers to stay behind the scenes. A humble person is one who is not overly proud or boastful and does not seek to draw attention to themselves. They are content with their accomplishments and do not seek to be praised for them. In contrast, someone who is vainglorious is seeking attention and accolades for their achievements. The opposite of vainglorious is someone who is modest and unassuming.

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Usage examples for Vainglorious

You see, she might be a very good woman, and yet have no sense of humor; she might be very charitable, and also a little vainglorious about it; she might have very exalted ideas of duty, and be a trifle hard on those who did not come up to her standards; but in Miss Francie's case these qualifications haven't to be put in at all.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
Again it has to be asked whether this resembles more the vainglorious structure of a myth, or the course of a truthful history.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
He was the first of the long line of bishops of the capital to receive the honours of archiepiscopal rank, and, as his character, which has been sketched for us by his candid nephew, Cardinal de Retz, was at once feeble and vainglorious, it is probable that his head was a little turned.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes

Famous quotes with Vainglorious

  • Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
    Camille Paglia
  • But the most lasting agony of this war was suffered, not by the defeated, but by the victors. For when their passion had cooled the Americans could not easily disguise from themselves that they had committed murder. They were not at heart a brutal folk, but rather a kindly. They liked to think of the world as a place of innocent pleasure-seeking, and of themselves as the main purveyors of delight. Yet they had been somehow drawn into this fantastic crime; and henceforth an all-pervading sense of collective guilt warped the American mind. They had ever been vainglorious and intolerant; but now these qualities in them became extravagant even to insanity. Both as individuals and collectively, they became increasingly frightened of criticism, increasingly prone to blame and hate, increasingly self-righteous, increasingly hostile to the critical intelligence, increasingly superstitious.
    Olaf Stapledon
  • He was not certain why he was sure of defeat. It was, perhaps, that he admired Wellington. The English General had a mind of fine calculation that appealed to Ducos, who did not believe that the vainglorious Marshals of France had the measure of the Englishman. The Emperor, now, he was different. He would out-calculate and outfight any man.
    Bernard Cornwell
  • He like the Church he serves is blind and empty and vainglorious. This God they prattle on about, where’s His justice, where’s His compassion? Does it please Him to see dying people hounded in His name, does He snigger at His bumbling priests, is He satisfied when men drop dead chopping stone out for His temples, twisted little God dying tepid-faced on a cross....She thought, I’ll go out and look for other gods, and maybe they’ll be better and anyway they can’t be worse.
    Keith Roberts

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