Synonyms of vainglorious

vainglorious

adjective

ˌvān-ˈglȯr-ē-əs 

as in smug

having too high an opinion of oneself

a vainglorious woman who always insists on being the center of attention

Synonyms & Similar Words

• smug
• arrogant
• proud
• vain
• self-important
• conceited
• pompous
• selfish
• egotistic
• prideful
• domineering
• egoistic
• important
• bigheaded
• complacent
• self-conceited
• confident
• self-satisfied
• boastful
• overweening
• biggety
• consequential
• stuck-up
• bumptious
• supercilious
• self-opinionated
• high-and-mighty
• haughty
• cavalier
• bombastic
• assured
• snobbish
• braggart
• cocky
• swaggering
• blusterous
• masterful
• braggy
• pretentious
• uppity
• swellheaded
• snooty
• snobby
• assumptive
• pontifical
• bragging
• disdainful
• uppish
• overconfident
• presumptuous
• blustery
• holier-than-thou
• high-handed
• fastuous
• self-assertive
• toplofty
• imperious
• chesty
• superior
• huffy
• high-hat
• self-assured
• self-confident
• lofty
• self-centered
• peremptory
• lordly
• highfalutin
• presuming
• patronizing
• self-congratulatory
• condescending
• self-glorifying
• self-contented
• self-dramatizing
• self-promoting
• self-asserting
• self-engrossed
• self-affected
• self-gratulatory
• self-applauding
• self-adulatory

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• humble
• modest
• diffident
• egoless
• timid
• meek
• self-critical
• unassertive
• unassuming
• uncomplacent
• unpretentious
• self-doubting
• down-to-earth
• bashful
• sheepish
• self-reproachful
• self-distrustful
• introverted
• shy
• mousy
• shrinking
• retiring
• self-reproving
• demure
• overmodest
• unarrogant

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of vainglorious

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, 25 Feb. 2026

All but the most vainglorious architects imagine that their buildings will change in some small way after completion. — Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2025