Meanings
comparative more egotistical · superlative most egotistical
- Tending to talk excessively about oneself.
- Believing oneself to be better and more important than others due to one's position, popularity, wealth, appearance, etc.
“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.”
2019 January 29, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Former Starbucks CEO heckled at book event for weighing independent run: ‘Don’t help elect Trump!’”, in CNN1 more example
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".
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Hanar Codex entry - nonstandardby confusion of the similar wordsEgoistical (advocating egoism).
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecharacteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance
adjectivecharacteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishegotist
- Englishegotistic
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishegotistical
Translations
Catalan egotista
- egotistabelieving oneself to be better and more important than others
Chinese Mandarin 狂妄
- 狂妄 (kuángwàng)believing oneself to be better and more important than others
Czech naegovaný
- naegovanýbelieving oneself to be better and more important than others
Finnish itsekeskeinen, omahyväinen
- itsekeskeinenbelieving oneself to be better and more important than others
- omahyväinenbelieving oneself to be better and more important than others
- itserakasbelieving oneself to be better and more important than others
Irish féinspéiseach, féinspéiseach
- féinspéiseachtending to talk excessively about oneself
- féinspéiseachbelieving oneself to be better and more important than others
- leithleachbelieving oneself to be better and more important than others
Polish egotyczny, egotyczny
- egotycznytending to talk excessively about oneself
- egotycznybelieving oneself to be better and more important than others
Spanish egotista, egotista
- egotistatending to talk excessively about oneself
- egotistabelieving oneself to be better and more important than others
Cite this entry
egotistical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/egotistical
“egotistical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/egotistical. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “egotistical,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/egotistical.
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