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egotist

[ ee-guh-tist, eg-uh- ]

noun

  1. a conceited, boastful person.
  2. a selfish person; egoist.


egotist

/ ˈiːɡətɪst; ˈɛɡ- /

noun

  1. a conceited boastful person
  2. a self-interested person; egoist
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌegoˈtistically, adverb
  • ˌegoˈtistic, adjective
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Other Words From

  • anti·ego·tist noun adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of egotist1

First recorded in 1705–15; egot(ism) + -ist
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Example Sentences

He appears to be just another egotist enjoying his ability to pontificate for hours at a time with or without enough facts to back up what he is saying.

A man stereotyped as a publicity-seeking egotist kept many of those successes secret.

In other words, he must have been an egotist, which he was not.

So this raid of an intolerable egotist across the disordered beginnings of a new time should have closed.

There is no proof that this unbrotherly, unhumorous egotist was ever sincerely loved by any human being.

M. d'Ablaincourt was an egotist; but, at the same time, a well-bred, a well-mannered egotist.

Being an egotist also, if I may say so, on a national scale, he thought humanity could only be redeemed by German art.

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