vainglorious
pronunciation
How to pronounce vainglorious in British English:
UK [ˌveɪnˈglɔ:riəs]
How to pronounce vainglorious in American English:
US [venˈɡlɔriəs, -ˈɡlor-]
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- Adjective:
- feeling self-importance
Word Origin
- vainglorious
- vainglorious: see glory
- vainglorious (adj.)
- early 15c., from vainglory + -ous, or from Old French vain glorios "boastful, swaggering." Related: Vaingloriously; vaingloriousness. Groce ("Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 3rd ed., 1796) has vain-glorious man "One who boasts without reason, or, as the canters say, pisses more than he drinks."
Example
- 1. She is a vainglorious woman .
- 2. They collapse standards and offer a vainglorious travesty of a cultural experience to a paying public .
- 3. The grand and vainglorious forces running the great american scandal machine are very big on how things seem .
- 4. I want to reassure you that this transaction is not a vainglorious adventure but rather a project that will bring smile into our face .
- 5. As this year 's political season opens , and the end-game of the current parliament begins , the glory has turned out to be vainglorious and the intellectual revival seems to have been a mirage .