narcissistic

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US /ˌnɑɹ.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/ UK /ˌnɑː.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/
adj noun Freq #22168

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Obsessed with one's own self image and ego.

    Anyone who goes into a voting booth on November the 8th and comes out saying, “I feel a hundred percent great about what I just did in there!,” is either lying to themselves, or did something unspeakable in that booth! And that means, as uncomfortable as this is, everyone has to own the floors of whoever you vote for, whether they are a lying handsy narcissistic sociopath, a hawkish Wall Street-friendly embodiment of everything that some people can’t stand about politics, an ill-tempered mountain molester with a radical dangerous tax plan that even he can’t defend, or a conspiracy-pandering political neophyte with no clear understanding of how government operates and who once recorded this folk rap about the virtues of bicycling.

  2. 2
    noun

    A narcissist.

    Because narcissistics cannot handle failure, they will take great lengths to avoid risks and situations in which defeat is a possibility.

  3. 3
    adj

    characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance

  4. 4
    adj

    Of or pertaining to the nature of narcissism.

  5. 5
    adj

    Having an inflated idea of one's own importance.

Etymology

From narcissist + -ic.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
3 adj · characteristic of those... egotistic
Word family
Derived forms narcissisticallynonnarcissistic
Related forms megalomanianarcissismnarcissistnarcissize

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