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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vainglorious \Vain'glo"ri*ous\, adjective Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful. ''Arrogant and vainglorious expression.'' --Sir M. Hale. -- {Vain'glo"ri*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Vain'glo"ri*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vainglorious
adjective: feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride" [syn: {big}, {swelled}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "vainglorious": Gascon, boastful, boasting, braggart, bragging, complacent, conceited, consequential, disdainful, fanfaron, fanfaronading, gasconading, insolent, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, overproud, overweening, self-admiring, self-advertising, self-applauding, self-approving, self-assuming, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-endeared, self-esteeming, self-flattering, self-glorious, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important, self-lauding, self-loving, self-respecting, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, self-vaunting, smug, stuck-up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, vain, vaporing, vaunting
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