adj. abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes"

adj. overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks"

adj. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"

adj. having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc; "brash immodest boasting"

adj. marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets"

adj. overly self-confident or self-assertive; "a very cocky young man"

adj. characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance

adj. befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior

adj. limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

adj. excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"

adj. marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation"

adj. excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"

adj. as of a photograph; made larger; "the enlarged photograph revealed many details"

adj. made wider or larger in all dimensions; "a dilated pupil"

adj. expanded in scope; "the enlarged authority of the committee"

adj. expanded by (or as if by) gas or air; "an inflated balloon"

adj. (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry; "advanced societies"; "an advanced country technologically"

adj. being at a peak or culminating point; "broad daylight"; "full summer"

adj. consisting of or causing a climax; "a climactic development"

adj. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"

adj. highest in extent or degree; "to the last measure of human endurance"; "whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually"

adj. of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses"

adj. more than usual: "high risks"; "high winds"; "great expectations"; "great worry"

adj. of education beyond the secondary level; "higher education"; "higher learning"

adj. advanced in complexity or elaboration; "higher finance"; "higher mathematics"

adj. ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual; "soaring prices"

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

adj. feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"

adj. (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of self-aggrandizement

adj. having or showing self-esteem

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

adj. having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"

adj. occasioning pride; "a gratifying (or proud) achievement"

adj. proud of your house or its furnishings or upkeep

adj. excessively proud

adj. feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; "proud of their child"

adj. proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction)

adj. trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness

adj. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski