swelled

1. 1.

   feeling self-importance

   “too big for his britches”

   “had a swelled head”

   “he was swelled with pride”

   Synonymsbigvainglorious

   Similarproud

Other forms of swelled

comparative

swelledder·

superlative

swelleddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about swelled

What does swelled mean?

swelled means "feeling self-importance".

How many syllables are in swelled?

swelled has 1 syllable: swelled. In IPA it is /ˈswɛld/.

What is another word for swelled?

Close synonyms include big, vainglorious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swelled a common word?

swelled is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.