Puffed-up definition: feeling self-important; arrogant; pompous.. See examples of PUFFED-UP used in a sentence.

too pleased or satisfied about something that you have achieved: I was so puffed up with pride that I thought I could do it my way and make up my rules.

to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs". synonyms: blow up, puff, puff out. see moresee less. type of:.

to talk a lot about how excellent or important someone or something is, sometimes praising them or it more than is deserved: The report puffs him up until ...

If you describe someone as puffed up, you disapprove of them because they are very proud of themselves and think that they are very important. [disapproval].

idiom : to be showing one's pride by the way one behaves or holds one's body He was puffed up with pride over his victory.

Synonyms for PUFFED (UP): rolled up, blew up, increased, inflated, distended, built up, bourgeoned, rose; Antonyms of PUFFED (UP): decreased, diminished, ...

Synonyms: boastful, arrogant, swaggering, bragging, cocky, vaunting, conceited, puffed-up, bumptious, immodest, crowing, overconfident, vainglorious.

Verb · (transitive) To inflate with air. We puffed up the balloons. · (transitive, intransitive) To fluff up, such as an animal raising its fur or feathers to ...

puffed up. adjective swollen-headed, proud, high and mighty (informal), bigheaded (informal), full of yourself, too big for your boots He was too puffed up with ...