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Synonyms & Antonyms of swelled head
an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements
- coming in first in a couple of tennis tournaments was enough to give him a swelled head
Synonyms for swelled head
- amour propre,
- bighead,
- complacence,
- complacency,
- conceit,
- conceitedness,
- ego,
- egotism,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- pride,
- pridefulness,
- self-admiration,
- self-assumption,
- self-conceit,
- self-congratulation,
- self-esteem,
- self-glory,
- self-importance,
- self-love,
- self-opinion,
- self-satisfaction,
- smugness,
- swellheadedness,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory,
- vainness,
- vanity
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“Swelled head.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swelled%20head. Accessed 21 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of swelled head was in 1870
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