bighead attitude
- noun
- Offensive
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actitud arrogante
- His bighead attitude made it difficult for him to keep friends at work.
Examples
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People were put off by the coach's bighead attitude during interviews.
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Don't adopt a bighead attitude at the meeting!
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Despite his success, she never liked his bighead attitude.
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His bighead attitude makes it hard to work with him.
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His bighead attitude alienated many potential collaborators in the project.
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She couldn't stand his bighead attitude, especially when he boasted about his accomplishments.
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The team's performance declined because of one member's bighead attitude towards constructive feedback.
Synonyms
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4.8
Being too proud and acting as if you are better than others
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7.0
A proud, rude way of acting that shows little respect for other people
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7.4
Thinking you are more important or better than other people
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8.4
Treating people in a rude, bossy way and not listening to them
Thinking you are much better or more important than other people
Behaving as if you are better than other people
A habit of thinking you are better than other people
A way of acting that is arrogant and demanding
Acting too proud and thinking they are better than others
Being too bossy and trying to control other people
Antonyms
How Arrogant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'bighead' (a person who is excessively proud) with 'attitude' (a habitual way of thinking or behaving), so the meaning 'an overly conceited or arrogant manner' is directly inferable from the constituents. This noun+noun composition follows a common compositional pattern and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Bighead attitude may come from the picture of someone's head growing bigger with pride, as if their ideas of themselves fill their head. Calling someone a bighead suggests they think too highly of themselves, and the word attitude shows it is about the way they act. That's why the phrase means 'too proud' or 'arrogant'.