英和和英

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌi.ɡoʊˈtɪs.tɪk.(ə)l/

形容詞

egotistical (comparative more egotistical, superlative most egotistical)

1. Tending to talk excessively about oneself.
2. Believing oneself to be better and more important than others due to one's position, popularity, wealth, appearance, etc.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Hanar Codex entry:

     All hanar have two names. The Face Name is known to the world; the Soul Name is kept for use among close friends and relations. Hanar never refer to themselves in the first person in conversation with someone they know on a Face Name basis. To do so is considered egotistical, so instead they refer to themselves as "this one", or the impersonal "it".

   • 2019 January 29, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Former Starbucks CEO heckled at book event for weighing independent run: ‘Don’t help elect Trump!’”, in CNN‎:

     “Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”

3. (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egoistical (advocating egoism).

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

派生語

関連する語

• egotist
• egotism