Synonyms for puffed up
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : puhft-uhp |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpʌftˈʌp |
Top 10 synonyms for puffed up Other synonyms for the word puffed up
- acclaim
- accredit
- adulate
- advocate
- aerate
- affected
- aggrandize
- amplify
- animated
- approve
- aroused
- assertive
- assuming
- audacious
- aureate
- autocratic
- balloon
- be inflated
- be proud
- become bloated
- become distended
- become swollen
- beef up
- believing
- belly
- bet on
- big
- big talking
- big-headed
- biggety
- bigheaded
- bilge
- billow
- billowy
- bless
- blissful
- blister
- bloated
- block
- blow horn
- blow up
- blowing one's own horn
- blown
- boast
- boastful
- boasting
- bold
- bolster
- bombastic
- boost
- bossy
- bounce
- brag
- brag about
- bragging
- brave
- brazen
- brim over
- broaden
- build
- build up
- bulge
- bulge out
- bulgy
- bulk up
- burgeon
- butter up
- cajole
- cavalier
- celebrate
- certain
- charge
- charm
- cheeky
- cheer
- cheered
- chichi
- choke
- clap
- clog
- close
- cocksure
- cocky
- cold-shoulder
- collected
- color
- commemorate
- commend
- complacent
- compliment
- composed
- conceited
- conceity
- condescending
- confident
- congest
- congratulate
- conspicuous
- contemptuous
- content
- convinced
- cool
- countenance
- counting on
- courageous
- cram
- crow
- crowd
- crowing
- cry up
- dauntless
- delighted
- depending on
- detail
- develop
- diffuse
- dilate
- disdainful
- dismissive
- distend
- distended
- distent
- domineering
- dramatize
- ebb and flow
- ecstatic
- egocentric
- egoistic
- egoistical
- egomaniacal
- egotistic
- egotistical
- elaborate
- elevated
- embellish
- embroider
- enchanted
- endorse
- enhance
- enlarge
- enlarged
- enraptured
- escalate
- eulogize
- euphoric
- euphuistic
- exaggerate
- exaggerated
- exalt
- exalted
- excited
- exhilarated
- expand
- expanded
- expectant
- expecting
- explicate
- extend
- extol
- extravagant
- exult
- exultant
- fan out
- fatten
- fawn upon
- fearless
- feigned
- felicitate
- fill
- fill out
- fired up
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flatter oneself
- flatulent
- flaunting
- flesh out
- flowery
- flushed
- flying
- flying high
- fresh
- fudge
- fulfill
- full
- full of hot air
- full of oneself
- furnish
- fustian
- gall
- gasconade
- gaudy
- give a boost to
- give a bouquet
- give a posy
- give bouquet
- give kudos
- givea bouquet
- gleeful
- glorify
- glory in
- glut
- gold star
- gorge
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- grow
- grow larger
- gung ho
- gutsy
- hail
- ham
- hand it to
- hats off to
- haughty
- having faith in
- heap
- hear it for
- heave
- heighten
- hifalutin
- high
- high and mighty
- high falutin
- high-and-mighty
- high-flown
- high-handed
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- highfalutin'
- highfaluting
- hike
- hoity-toity
- hold head high
- holier-than-thou
- hollow
- honor
- hopeful
- hopped up
- hot stuff
- hotshot
- huffy
- hymn
- hyped-up
- idiosyncratic
- immodest
- imperious
- impertinent
- imperturbable
- important
- imposing
- impregnate
- in heaven
- in high spirits
- in seventh heaven
- inborn
- increase
- increased
- individualistic
- inflamed
- inflate
- inflated
- ingrained
- ingratiate oneself with
- inherent
- inner-directed
- insolent
- intensity
- intimate
- intoxicated
- intrepid
- intrinsic
- introverted
- isolated
- jam-pack
- jazzy
- joyful
- joyous
- jubilant
- know-it-all
- kudize
- la-de-da
- la-di-da
- lade
- laud
- lengthen
- load
- lofty
- looking good
- lordly
- loudmouth
- magisterial
- magnify
- magniloquent
- make mountain of molehill
- make much of
- maximize
- meet
- mincing
- mount
- multiply
- mushroom
- narcissistic
- nose in the air
- obsessive
- on an ego trip
- on cloud nine
- on ego trip
- on one's high horse
- open
- open out
- opinionated
- ornate
- orotund
- ostentatious
- outspread
- overambitious
- overbear
- overbearing
- overblown
- overcharge
- overconfident
- overdo
- overdraw
- overemphasize
- overestimate
- overestimated
- overflow
- overjoyed
- overpaid
- overplay
- overpriced
- overpromoted
- overrate
- overspread
- overstate
- overstress
- overweening
- pack
- pack like sardines
- pad
- panegyrize
- pat on the back
- patronizing
- pay respects
- pay tribute to
- peremptory
- permeate
- personal
- pervade
- phony
- piggyback
- pique
- pitch
- please
- pleased
- pleased with oneself
- plug
- plume
- plump
- poised
- pompous
- pontifical
- portentous
- positive
- pouch
- pout
- praise
- prance
- preen
- presume
- presuming
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- prideful
- priggish
- prolong
- protract
- protrude
- proud
- puff
- puff up
- puffed up
- puffed-up
- puffy
- pump up
- pumped up
- push
- pushy
- put-on
- pyramid
- racked
- raise
- ram
- ram in
- ranting
- rave
- recommend
- replenish
- revel in
- rhetorical
- ripple
- rise
- rise and fall
- rise up
- rock
- roll
- roose
- root
- rosy
- round out
- roused
- salute
- sanction
- sanguine
- sassy
- sate
- satiate
- satisfied
- satisfy
- saturate
- scornful
- secure
- self-absorbed
- self-admiring
- self-aggrandizing
- self-applauding
- self-assured
- self-centered
- self-confident
- self-congratulatory
- self-contented
- self-important
- self-involved
- self-possessed
- self-reliant
- self-respecting
- self-righteous
- self-satisfied
- self-seeking
- self-serving
- self-sufficient
- selfish
- set up
- shoal
- showy
- sing praises of
- slap on
- smart-alecky
- smarty
- smug
- sniffy
- snippy
- snobbish
- snobby
- snooty
- snotty
- sonorous
- soothe
- soup up
- speak highly of
- specious
- splashy
- spread
- spread out
- stilted
- stock
- stopper
- store
- stretch
- stretch out
- stroke
- strut
- strutting
- stuck on oneself
- stuck up
- stuck-up
- stuff
- stuffy
- subjective
- supercilious
- superior
- supply
- support
- surcharge
- sure
- sure of oneself
- surge
- swagger
- swaggering
- swank
- swanky
- swell
- swell up
- swollen
- swollen-headed
- tack on
- take off hat to
- take up
- thicken
- toast
- too big for one's britches
- too-too
- top
- top off
- toss
- trade last
- transported
- trusting
- tumefy
- tumid
- turgid
- turned-on
- unafraid
- undaunted
- undulate
- unflappable
- unfold
- unfurl
- unhesitating
- unravel
- unroll
- upbeat
- uppity
- uprise
- upsurge
- utopian
- vain
- vainglorious
- valiant
- vaunt
- vaunting
- wave
- wax
- well up
- widen
- windbag
- windy
- wise guy
- wish joy to
- worship
- wrapped up in oneself
Définition of puffed up
- As in arrogant : adj having exaggerated self-opinion
- As in assured : adj confident
- As in overrated : adj overvalued
- As in pompous : adj arrogant, egotistic
- As in pretentious : adj snobbish, conceited
- As in proud : adj arrogant, self-important
- As in puffy : adj swollen
- As in self-assured : adj self-confident
- As in self-important : adj conceited
- As in self-satisfied : adj pleased with oneself
- As in smug : adj pleased with oneself
- As in snotty : adj arrogant
- As in stuck-up : adj snobbish
- As in uppity : adj arrogant
- As in vain : adj egotistical
- As in vainglorious : adj boastful, proud
- As in boastful : adj bragging
- As in egotistic : adj conceited
- As in egoistic : adj egotistic
- As in egoistical : adj egotistic
- As in egotistical : adj egotistic
- As in prideful : adj arrogant
- As in prideful : adj proud
- As in puffed-up : adj pompous
- As in self-involved : adj egotistic
- As in self-respecting : adj proud
- As in self-seeking : adj egotistic
- As in self-serving : adj egotistic
- As in swellheaded : adj egotistic
- As in conceited : adj egotistical
- As in confident : adj certain, assured
- As in egotistic/egoistic : adj thinking very highly of oneself
- As in elated : adj very happy
- As in fustian : adj pompous
- As in highfalutin : adj pompous
- As in inflate : verb blow up, increase
- As in magnify : verb exaggerate, blow out of proportion
- As in pride : verb take pleasure in accomplishment
- As in swell : verb become larger
- As in acclaim : verb give approval
- As in billow : verb surge
- As in bloat : verb blow up like a balloon
- As in blow up : verb inflate
- As in plume : verb pride
- As in commend : verb recommend, praise
- As in compliment : verb praise, flatter
- As in expand : verb extend, augment
- As in extol : verb sing the praises of
- As in fill : verb to put in and occupy the whole of
- He will not be puffed up by success, or unduly depressed by failure.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- He had news of importance to communicate and was puffed up in consequence.
- Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Pete leaned forward and puffed up the chimney without speaking.
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
- Love vaunteth not itself (does not boast) is not puffed up (is not conceited).
- Extract from : « The Calvary Road » by Roy Hession
- Amos's ear was puffed up, and his toes were so sore he could hardly walk.
- Extract from : « Ben Comee » by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
- Priest and bishop are puffed up with their wealth and power.
- Extract from : « Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II » by Martin Luther
- She's grown so smart, so puffed up, just like a bubble that's ready to burst.
- Extract from : « The Power of Darkness » by Leo Tolstoy
- And, behold, these be the things that we are so proud and puffed up for.
- Extract from : « Meditations » by Marcus Aurelius
- Here was Esther so puffed up, that there was no holding her in.
- Extract from : « Mary Barton » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- All this hath come of charity, which vaunteth not itself and is not puffed up.
- Extract from : « Framley Parsonage » by Anthony Trollope
Antonyms for puffed up
- abbreviate
- abridge
- abstain
- afraid
- agitated
- altruistic
- anger
- be calm
- be modest
- berate
- blame
- castigate
- censure
- close
- complain
- compress
- concentrate
- condemn
- condense
- confused
- contract
- cowardly
- criticize
- curtail
- damn
- debase
- decline
- decrease
- deflate
- denounce
- deny
- deplete
- deprecate
- deprecating
- depress
- depressed
- deprive
- diet
- diffident
- diminish
- disappointed
- disapprove
- discourage
- dishonor
- dismayed
- displease
- disrespect
- dissatisfy
- dissuade
- distrustful
- doubted
- doubtful
- doubting
- down
- drain
- drop
- dubious
- dull
- empty
- end
- excited
- exhaust
- fail
- fall
- fast
- feared
- fearful
- flat
- forget
- genuine
- halt
- hesitant
- hide
- hinder
- honest
- humble
- humiliate
- ignore
- indefinite
- insult
- keep
- kind
- lessen
- let air out
- let go
- let out
- libel
- lose
- lower
- meek
- miniaturize
- miserable
- miss
- moderate
- modest
- narrow
- neglect
- nervous
- open
- oppose
- pessimistic
- plain
- play down
- possible
- prevent
- public
- rebuke
- reduce
- refuse
- reject
- release
- repel
- reprimand
- reproach
- reserved
- restrict
- sad
- self-conscious
- selfless
- servile
- shame
- shorten
- shrink
- shrivel
- shy
- simple
- simplify
- slander
- slump
- sorrowful
- sorry
- spend
- stabilize
- stop
- submissive
- take
- tangle
- thin
- tight
- tighten
- timid
- troubled
- unassuming
- unblock
- uncertain
- unconceited
- unconfident
- unhappy
- unpretentious
- unself-confident
- unselfish
- unstop
- unsure
- unswollen
- upset
- use
- use up
- vituperate
- void
- waste
- weak
- weaken
- withhold
- worried
- worry
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