megalomaniacal
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- adjective
- /ˌmɛɡəloʊˈmeɪnɪəkl/
:
megalomaníaco
- His megalomaniacal dreams led him to make reckless decisions that harmed the company.
- megalomaniacal designs
- megalomaniacal path to power
Examples
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And when the Russian Empire had reached its megalomaniacal limit, it collapsed.
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No one in EVE is out to save the world except in their own megalomaniacal delusions.
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There are plenty of megalomaniacal dreams out there; our attention should go to those that have strength behind them.
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The project is ambitious, perhaps even megalomaniacal.
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Steven Jobs is a megalomaniacal control freak.
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I believe this project is megalomaniacal and populist.
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It's every band's megalomaniacal dream: achieve enough fame and glory that someone goes and creates a documentary about you.
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But it's pretty revealing to see just how megalomaniacal Joyner and his fellow "prophets" and "apostles" have become.
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Anxieties over any potential megalomaniacal designs on the part of a visiting officeholder should have been substantially assuaged by the fact that he could simply be ousted should he behave autocratically.
Academic text (2015) -
The Revolutionists concludes with a critique of the perceived megalomaniacal ambitions of the slave leader Henri Christophe, who succeeded Louverture as Haiti's leader after the revolution.
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
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Being sure you are much more important than other people
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Thinking you are much better than other people
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Seeing yourself as much more important than other people
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Acting as if you are better than other people
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Acting as if you are better than other people
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A person who wants a lot of control over other people
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A person who only cares about themselves and thinks they are more important than other people
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Bragging too much about how great you think you are
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Thinking you are more important than other people
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Being too proud and too sure of yourself so you ignore advice and make bad decisions
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Thinking you are better than other people and acting proud
Feeling and behaving as if they are much more important and powerful than others
Thinking you are better than other people
Antonyms
How Self-Important
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- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
megalomaniacal = megalomania (transparent) = megalo + mania + cal
The word is a regular learned formation built from 'megalo' + 'mania' plus the adjectival suffix '-cal', so its meaning is fairly predictable from the base word 'megalomania'.
Etymology
Megalomaniacal comes from Greek parts megalo- meaning 'great', like mega, and mania meaning 'madness' or 'a very strong obsession', like 'maniac'. So a megalomaniacal person is 'obsessed with being great' and often wants too much power or thinks they are more important than others.