narcissistic
/ˌnɑɹ.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the nature of narcissism.
adj
adj
Obsessed with one's own self image and ego.
noun
A narcissist.
Example Sentences
- "Anyone who goes into a voting booth on November the 8th and comes out saying, “I feel a hundred percent great about what I just did in there!,” is either lying to themselves, or did something unspeakable in that booth! And that means, as uncomfortable as this is, everyone has to own the floors of whoever you vote for, whether they are a lying handsy narcissistic sociopath, a hawkish Wall Street-friendly embodiment of everything that some people can’t stand about politics, an ill-tempered mountain molester with a radical dangerous tax plan that even he can’t defend, or a conspiracy-pandering political neophyte with no clear understanding of how government operates and who once recorded this folk rap about the virtues of bicycling."
- "“When left to their own devices, people who are extremely narcissistic in this unhealthy way are not going to change,” said Dr. Malkin, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in the research."
- "Because narcissistics cannot handle failure, they will take great lengths to avoid risks and situations in which defeat is a possibility."
Etymology
Etymology tree English narcissist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English narcissistic From narcissist + -ic.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌnɑɹ.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/
- British English: /ˌnɑː.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/