egomaniacal

[ee-goh-muh-nahy-i-kuhl, eg-oh-]

adjective

1. displaying egomania; abnormally or extremely selfish and self-centered, with an excessively high opinion of oneself.

   His followers are eerily similar to those of another egomaniacal psychopath in the 1930s—Adolf Hitler.

   Professor Lang is a vain, strutting buffoon, given to egomaniacal rages and ridiculous posturing.

Other Word Forms

• egomaniacally adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of egomaniacal¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; egomaniac ( def. ) + -al ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

It was, among other things, unrelentingly, embarrassingly—and, most of all, delusionally—egomaniacal.

From Slate

My ex is an egomaniacal actor who once said, “I think I’d like you more if you were repped by a reputable agency like CAA.”

From Los Angeles Times

Trump is not a king, and we don’t have to collectively pretend that he is or act as if this is some sort of joke—just as we don’t have to tolerate unelected lunatics from the Heritage Foundation or unelected egomaniacal billionaires setting the rules for a pluralistic America.

From Slate

Along with the headline tweak, editors cut out much of Reinhart’s framing, which was critical of Kennedy, including his charge that Kennedy, “via his egomaniacal disregard for scientific evidence, seeks to use law itself to inflict preventable death on those millions,” per his initial draft of the piece.

From Salon

Sitting for the “Filmmaker Toolkit” podcast, Eggers joked to host Chris O’Falt, “It feels ugly and blasphemous and egomaniacal and disgusting for a filmmaker in my place to do ‘Nosferatu’ next.”

From Salon