egotistical
/ˌi.ɡoʊˈtɪs.tɪk.(ə)l/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Tending to talk excessively about oneself.
adj
Believing oneself to be better and more important than others due to one's position, popularity, wealth, appearance, etc.
adj
Example Sentences
- "All hanar have two names. The Face Name is known to the world; the Soul Name is kept for use among close friends and relations. Hanar never refer to themselves in the first person in conversation with someone they know on a Face Name basis. To do so is considered egotistical, so instead they refer to themselves as "this one", or the impersonal "it"."
- "“Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree English egotist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English egotistic English -al English egotistical From egotistic + -al.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌi.ɡoʊˈtɪs.tɪk.(ə)l/
Inflected Forms
more egotistical (comparative)
most egotistical (superlative)