Narcissistic

//ˌnɑɹ.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A narcissist.

    "Because narcissistics cannot handle failure, they will take great lengths to avoid risks and situations in which defeat is a possibility."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to the nature of narcissism.
  2. 2
    Having an inflated idea of one's own importance.
  3. 3
    Obsessed with one's own self image and ego.

    "Anyone who goes into a voting booth on November the 8th and comes out saying, “I feel a hundred percent great about what I just did in there!,” is either lying to themselves, or did something unspeakable in that booth! And that means, as uncomfortable as this is, everyone has to own the floors of whoever you vote for, whether they are a lying handsy narcissistic sociopath, a hawkish Wall Street-friendly embodiment of everything that some people can’t stand about politics, an ill-tempered mountain molester with a radical dangerous tax plan that even he can’t defend, or a conspiracy-pandering political neophyte with no clear understanding of how government operates and who once recorded this folk rap about the virtues of bicycling."

Adjective
  1. 1
    characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance wordnet

Example

More examples

"Aniq turned slowly at the sound of the needy, narcissistic gurgle that sounded from behind him."

Etymology

From narcissist + -ic.

Related phrases

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