biggety

adjective

ˈbi-gə-tē How to pronounce biggety (audio)
variants or biggity
Southern & Midland
as in proud
having too high an opinion of oneself he's gotten biggety since he got promoted to director of sales

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biggety
  1. proud
  2. smug
  3. arrogant
  4. vainglorious
  5. important
  6. vain
Adjective
  • The locker real estate in the team’s second arena was something the proud parent didn’t even consider as part of his son’s Heat takeover.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Musk’s forthright, crusty dad Errol sounds almost proud that something was bullied out of his son, but the movie avoids filling out that traumatic childhood.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of proud
Adjective
  • Here was my chance to get out of London, this counterfeit of death with its everywhere rage and its moribund culture and its smug population and its streets steeped in resentment and the sky pressing down like a chloroform rag.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Hilton vouches for their integrity, then quickly pivots into an attack on smug Democrats who take voters for granted.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of smug
Adjective
  • Wright was known to be arrogant, and his self-importance is on full display here.
    — Wendy S. Walters, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Georg, an unemployed auto mechanic, comes across as an arrogant jock.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of arrogant
Adjective
  • Claire’s elective death therefore remains a problematic choice for some viewers, an act of vainglorious selfishness from a woman who was never terribly nice to begin with.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
  • Melodramatic and vainglorious, moody and capricious, a fidgety, neurotic hypochondriac, Stalin was a bundle of appalling contradictions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026
Definition of vainglorious
Adjective
  • Understanding the answer is often more important than the opportunity itself.
    — Aneri Jambusaria, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Ties between Ukraine and its most important backer the United States have also been strained by the apparent withdrawal of US intelligence sharing, and restrictions to the Starlink satellite internet service.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of important
Adjective
  • Some of those leaders seem right out of The Hunger Games, which featured Tucci as a vain, preening TV host.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Has the movie somehow justified, by stranding the poet, the family’s vain but common-sense view of life?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of vain
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“Biggety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biggety. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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