EGOTISTICAL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does egotistical mean? 

• EGOTISTICAL (adjective)
  The adjective EGOTISTICAL has 2 senses:

1. characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance

2. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

  Familiarity information: EGOTISTICAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EGOTISTICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance

Synonyms:

egotistic; egotistical; narcissistic; self-loving

Similar:

selfish (concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others)

Derivation:

egotist (a conceited and self-centered person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

Synonyms:

conceited; egotistic; egotistical; self-conceited; swollen; swollen-headed; vain

Context example:

vain about her clothes

Similar:

proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)

Derivation:

egotist (a conceited and self-centered person)

 Context examples 

I will try to; but you will forgive me if I seem egotistical.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of those who offer it; but that is the sort of pity native to callous, selfish hearts; it is a hybrid, egotistical pain at hearing of woes, crossed with ignorant contempt for those who have endured them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)