Meanings
adjectiveself-promotional (comparative more self-promotional, superlative most self-promotional)
comparative more self-promotional · superlative most self-promotional
- Using self-promotion.
Technofeudalists have a bad habit of repeating the industry’s self-promotional puffery.
2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*swé?
- Proto-Indo-European*selbʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*selbaz
- Old Englishself
- Old Englishself-
- Middle Englishself-
- Englishself-
- Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*pér
- Proto-Indo-European*pró
- Proto-Indo-European*pro-
- Proto-Italic*pro-
- Latinprō-
- Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
- Proto-Italic*moweō
- Latinmoveō
- Latinprōmoveō
- Late Latinprōmotiō
- Old Frenchpromocion
- Englishpromotion
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishpromotional
- Englishself-promotional
From self- + promotional.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
self-promotional. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-promotional
MLA
“self-promotional.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-promotional. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “self-promotional,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-promotional.
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