Vainglorious

Quick meaning: Vainglorious is an adjective meaning Possessing excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.

Meaning

Possessing excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.

Example Sentences

These attacks follow a familiar pattern: Their targets represent a threat to Trump’s vainglorious self-image.

"So kindly keep the vainglorious enumeration of your pots for the benefit of those village idiots who compose your particular set of boozing companions."

And the Apoſtle [Paul] ſeems here moſt peculiarly to have directed this Encomium of the Gospel, as a Defiance to the Philoſophers of his Time, the Fluſtring Vain-glorious Greeks, vvho pretended ſo much to magnify, and even Adore the VViſdom they profeſſed, […]

Railway engines have been attacked with gunfire by raiding aircraft on both sides of the Channel and the impression has grown up that they are defenceless monsters to be pestered with impunity. The first engine to disprove this vainglorious theory was, we are glad to note, a British one. [The locomotive boiler exploded, causing the aircraft to crash.]

Synonyms for vainglorious

Depending on context, synonyms include proud, big, swelled.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include proud, big, swelled, vaunts, self-glorious, vain.

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