puffed-up
Swollen with pride
Puffed-up describes someone or something inflated with self-importance or vanity.
A puffed-up executive acts superior; puffed-up rhetoric is overblown and pompous.
The image is of something swelled beyond its natural size—full of air rather than substance.
He strutted around with a puffed-up sense of his own brilliance.
Excessively proud of oneself
- vainExcessively proud or futile
- self-importantExaggerating one's own significance
- haughtyDisdainfully proud
- pompousAffectedly grand in manner
egotistical · smug · swollen-headed · boastful · pretentious · snobbish · superior · condescending
conceited
Excessively proud of oneself
- vainExcessively proud or futile
- self-importantExaggerating one's own significance
- haughtyDisdainfully proud
pompous · egotistical · smug · swollen-headed · boastful · pretentious · snobbish · superior · condescending · full of oneself
swollen
Abnormally enlarged
bulging · billowing · ballooned · plumped · engorged · filled · cushioned · pillowy · rounded · stuffed
popcorn
Heated grain that puffs
- rice cakesPuffed or pounded grain
- crispiesSmall crunchy food pieces
- cerealProcessed grain for breakfast
- theatricaltheatrical, dramatic, melodramatic, histrionic, hammy
puffed-uphumble
Unassuming about oneself
modest · self-effacing · unassuming · meek · unpretentious
puff, puffed, puffing, puffs, puffy, puffiness, puffier, puffiest