chesty

Examples

• All

• Yeah, sure you are a chesty little cuss.

  Young Guns (1988)

• Yes, she is chesty.

  Working Girls (1987)

• We were chesty and smug, unable to absorb the hurtling technologies that began to overarch our concepts of information, friendship, travel, investment, entertainment, labor, and human nature.

  Academic text (2012)

• His chesty attitude made it difficult for others to work with him.

• She always talks about her achievements in a chesty manner, making it hard for others to feel appreciated.

Synonyms

A

arrogant

vschesty

260 4.5

Behaving as if you are more important or better than other people

is more about proud self-importance without necessarily being disrespectful

S

self-important

vschesty

13 5.8

Acting as if you are better than other people

is shown as an outward superiority attitude rather than only inner feeling

B

bumptious

vschesty

1 9.9

Too confident and rude in a way that annoys other people

is about exaggerated self-importance without the aggressive offensive tone

B

braggy

vschesty

• Informal

1 7.8

Talking proudly about things you have done

is about inner exaggerated self-importance rather than spoken boasting

S

swelled

vschesty

• Offensive

8.0

Being too proud and acting like you are better than others

is a broader overbearing sense of superiority rather than mere conceit

Antonyms

H

humble

222 2.8

Not proud and not thinking you are better than others

M

modest

81 2.7

Not thinking you are better than others and not boasting

How Arrogant

haughty

14 8.1

arrogant

260 4.5

conceited

24 5.4

chesty

1 8.2

self-assured

11 4.1

humble

222 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology