Usually means: Excessively high regard for oneself.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word self-important:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-important: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-important: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-important, self-important: Collins English Dictionary
  4. self-important: Vocabulary.com
  5. Self-important, self-important: Wordnik
  6. self-important: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. self-important: Wiktionary
  8. self-important: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. self-important: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. self-important: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. self-important: Dictionary.com
  12. self-important: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. self-important: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Self-important: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. self-important: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. self-important: Rhymezone
  17. Self-important: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. self-important: FreeDictionary.org
  19. self-important: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. self-important: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-important: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-important: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See self-importantly as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Having, or behaving as if having, too high of an opinion of one's own importance.

Similar:
arrogant, proud, chesty, narcissistic, self-conceited, full of oneself, self-aggrandizing, conceited, vain, big-headed, more...

Opposite:
humble, unassuming, modest

Types:
arrogant, conceited, egotistical, narcissistic, pompous, pretentious, self-centered, self-absorbed, more...
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Similar:
arrogant, proud, chesty, narcissistic, self-conceited, full of oneself, self-aggrandizing, conceited, vain, big-headed, more...

Opposite:
humble, unassuming, modest

Types:
arrogant, conceited, egotistical, narcissistic, pompous, pretentious, self-centered, self-absorbed, more...



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