Antonyms for vainglorious
veɪnˈglɔr i əs, -ˈgloʊr-vain·glo·ri·ous

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1. big, swelled, vaingloriousadjective

   feeling self-importance

   "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"

   Antonyms:
   humble

   Synonyms:
   magnanimous, bountiful, prominent, big, cock-a-hoop, braggy, with child(p), giving, grownup, grown, large(p), enceinte, bounteous, liberal, self-aggrandizing, swelled, handsome, fully grown, braggart(a), bighearted, expectant, heavy(a), great(p), large, bragging(a), bad, freehanded, heavy(p), big(a), self-aggrandising, boastful, full-grown, openhanded, adult, gravid, big(p), crowing

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1. vaingloriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   boastful, pretentious, assuming, arrogant, conceited, overweening

How to use vainglorious in a sentence?

1. Jeffrey Flocken:

   The thought that the only way we can come up with to save the species is to kill them -- that, I would say, we are in a situation where there's a paucity of imaginative thinking. instead of killing it, they can be moved to a different area, be used to bring in photo tourism or eco-tourism -- something that doesn't kill the animal. People pay good money to go to Africa to see species like rhinos, and instead of just killing one for a quick monetary gain for a vainglorious American, it can be moved around to a different area if it is a problem with the herd.

2. Jeffrey Flocken:

   Instead of killing it, they can be moved to a different area, be used to bring in photo tourism or eco-tourism -- something that doesn't kill the animal. People pay good money to go to Africa to see species like rhinos, and instead of just killing one for a quick monetary gain for a vainglorious American, it can be moved around to a different area if it is a problem with the herd.

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