swellheaded

Too full of yourself

Swellheaded means conceited or arrogant, having an inflated sense of one's own importance.

The image is of a head literally swelling with self-regard: Don't get swellheaded just because you won one game.

The noun is swellhead.

conceited

vain

Excessively proud or futile

preening · egotistical · bigheaded · self-absorbed · vainglorious · prideful · immodest · peacockish · egocentric · self-obsessed

arrogant

pompous

Affectedly grand in manner

overbearing · domineering · high-handed · condescending · patronizing · disdainful · contemptuous · lordly · snobbish · snooty

boastful

bragging

Excessive self-praise

brash · blowhard · show-off · grandstanding · self-aggrandizing · puffed-up · windbag · loudmouth · trumpeting · crowing

smug

self-satisfied

Smugly pleased with oneself

holier-than-thou · sanctimonious · priggish · preachy · superior · gloating · hubristic · overconfident · cocksure

Opposites
ego and self-regard

swellheadedhumble

Unassuming about oneself

modest · self-effacing · unassuming · meek · unpretentious

Family

head, swell, swelling, heading, headed, swelled, swells, beheaded, upswell

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G