self-aggrandizing

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Boastful; intended to make oneself seem more important.
    — His self-aggrandizing talk alienated his colleagues, who had done the work he claimed credit for.

词形变化

more self-aggrandizing comparative most self-aggrandizing superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English aggrandizing
English self-aggrandizing
From self- + aggrandizing.
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