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Princeton's WordNet

  1. arrogant, chesty, self-importantadjective

    having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride

    "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

Wiktionary

  1. self-importantadjective

    Having, or behaving as if having, too high an opinion of one's own importance.

    The assistant manager was a self-important fellow who strutted about the office barking instructions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Self-importantadjective

    having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of one's own importance or merit

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-important in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-important in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of self-important in a Sentence

  1. Robert Shiller:

    It has something to do with Trumpism, there is a pass-it-on mentality. A sense that' those experts are just self-important ; they don't know anything.'.

  2. Korean Proverb:

    Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important.

  3. An NBC correspondent:

    He’s not a good anchor. He’s boring and self-important. It’s time for a change.


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