Meaning of "swollen-headedness" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF SWOLLEN-HEADEDNESS

swollen-headedness  [ˌswəʊlənˈhedɪdnəs]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWOLLEN-HEADEDNESS

Swollen-Headedness is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SWOLLEN-HEADEDNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of swollen-headedness in the English dictionary

The definition of swollen-headedness in the dictionary is the quality of being conceited.

TRANSLATION OF SWOLLEN-HEADEDNESS

Find out the translation of swollen-headedness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of swollen-headedness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «swollen-headedness» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 肿胀的头脑
• Translator English - Spanish: hinchada de cabeza
• English: swollen-headedness
• Translator English - Hindi: सूजन - headedness
• Translator English - Arabic: تورم الصلابة
• Translator English - Russian: опухшие головокружение
• Translator English - Portuguese: inchado de cabeça
• Translator English - Bengali: ফোলা কেশ
• Translator English - French: gonflé de tête
• Translator English - Malay: Bengkak-kepala
• Translator English - German: geschwollene Heit
• Translator English - Japanese: 腫れ、ふらつき
• Translator English - Korean: 부푼 머리가
• Translator English - Javanese: Swollen-headedness
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sưng váng
• Translator English - Tamil: வீக்கம்-தேவனே
• Translator English - Marathi: सुजलेला डोकं
• Translator English - Turkish: Şişmiş sersemlik
• Translator English - Italian: gonfio di testa
• Translator English - Polish: obrzęk w głowie
• Translator English - Ukrainian: опухлі запаморочення
• Translator English - Romanian: umflat de confuzie
• Translator English - Greek: πρησμένα ζάλη
• Translator English - Afrikaans: geswelde - hardkoppigheid
• Translator English - Swedish: svullna yrsel
• Translator English - Norwegian: hoven - headed

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWOLLEN-HEADEDNESS»

Discover the use of swollen-headedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to swollen-headedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Oxford Thesaurus of English

... hubris, boastfulness, cockiness, self-importance, immodesty; self-satisfaction, smugness, complacency; French amour propre; informal big-headedness, swollen-headedness, uppishness, uppitiness; literary vainglory. wANTONYMS modesty ...

Maurice Waite, 2009

Throwing Shadows

Part of the reason for this swollen—headedness was that many people asked to have their pictures taken with him to carry back to the United States for souvenirs. Antonio would arrange the girls in front of him, and he learned to say in English, ...

E.L. Konigsburg, 2011

The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study

... fruitlessness, fume, futility, hollowness, idleness, inanity, narcissism, ostentation, peacockery, pointlessness, pretension, pride, self- admiration, self- conceit, self-love, self- satisfaction, swollen-headedness, triviality, unreality, unsubstantially, ...

Wordsworth, William, 1993

Paraphrase on Luke 11-24

... in the public square they went hunting for magniloquent greetings, at dinner parties they cornered the seats of honour.9 So great was their thirst for the most foolish glory, so great was their swollen-headedness; but inside nothing was sound.

Desiderius Erasmus, 2003

Cricket At Fever Pitch

Hopefully, our maverick selectors will not overlook the explosive batting skills of Yuvraj Singh, against whom gross injustice has been done for some time now purportedly for reasons of lack of fitness and alleged 'swollen headedness,' for the ...

Khalid A-H Ansari, 2006

Dialect in Swahili: A Grammar of Dialectic Changes in the ...

Ku-suta = ku-t'ukuza. fr. kw-euka. Hayani: p1. of haya. ! Ku-'usir1=to delay by the way. Nqeo : swollen headedness. :ljakaburi, fr. kiburi = pride. Mutangele: old Swahili for nametenda. Mvl : chembe. Manaya: maugi. Kutubwikia: to sink into.

C. H. Stigand, 2013

Love and Sir Lancelot

... anything to be gained by making the teacher look a first-class moron.' 'Oh?' Sir Lancelot's beard came up. 'Standing on our dignity, are we? Ah, well, I suppose we must bear with a little swollen-headedness from a newly-elected consultant.

Richard Gordon, 2001

Chambers English Thesaurus

... fruitlessness, futility, hollowness, idleness, inanity, narcissism, ostentation, peacockery, pointlessness, pretension, pride, self-admiration, selfconceit, self- love, self-satisfaction, swollen-headedness, triviality, unreality, uselessness, vainglory, ...

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Gregory the Great

But on being suddenly struck by just one insulting word, he straightaway returns to his old pride, and he is brought back to his swollen headedness to such an extent that he completely forgets having aspired to the virtue of humility. Someone ...

John Moorhead, 2005

Liber Eliensis:

In fact it was out of rigorous observance of justice rather than the swollen- headedness of pride that he was not abiding by certain commands of the king: with discerning prudence, he was rendering 'unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, ...

Janet Fairweather, 2005

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWOLLEN-HEADEDNESS»

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SA v NZ: First real 2013 test

The Bulls may take some heart from the possibility that their hosts will be riding a fatal wave of swollen-headedness when the earthy South Africans come to ... «SPORT24, Mar 13»

Is There a light at the end of the tunnel for Ghana

Due to swollen-headedness, loss of form and indiscipline on the part of some of the established stars, the then Ghana head coach, C.K. Gyamfi turned to the ... «Ghana News, Dec 09»