vainglorious

1. 1.

   feeling self-importance

   “too big for his britches”

   “had a swelled head”

   “he was swelled with pride”

   Synonymsbigswelled

   Similarproud

Questions about vainglorious

What does vainglorious mean?

vainglorious means "feeling self-importance".

How many syllables are in vainglorious?

vainglorious has 4 syllables: vain-glo-ri-ous. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for vainglorious?

Close synonyms include big, swelled. 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 vainglorious a common word?

vainglorious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.