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Related Words
blusterous blustery boastful bombastic braggart bragging braggy cocky swaggering
arrogant assumptive bumptious cavalier chesty disdainful fastuous haughty high-and-mighty high-hat huffy lofty lordly masterful peremptory pontifical self-asserting self-assertive snobbish snobby snooty supercilious superior toplofty (also toploftical) uppish uppity
domineering high-handed imperious
highfalutin (also hifalutin) holier-than-thou pretentious
overconfident presuming presumptuous
confident self-assured self-confident
self-adulatory self-congratulatory self-contented self-gratulatory
self-applauding self-dramatizing self-glorifying self-promoting
self-affected self-centered self-engrossed selfish
condescending patronizing
Near Antonyms
diffident self-critical self-distrustful self-doubting self-reproachful self-reproving
meek timid unassertive
down-to-earth unarrogant unassuming unpretentious
bashful demure introverted mousy (or mousey) overmodest retiring sheepish shrinking shy
Antonyms
egoless humble modest uncomplacent
complex ​fraction
noun

Definition

  • a fraction with a fraction or mixed number in the numerator or denominator or both
    — compare simple fraction
First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined above
com​ply
verb
com·​ply
kəm-ˈplī
com​plied; com​ply​ing

Definition

  • intransitive ​verb
  • to conform, submit, or adapt (as to a regulation or to another's wishes) as required or requested //comply with federal law //the devices comply with industry standards
  • obsolete to be ceremoniously courteous
Examples
  • //I asked the waitress to refill my coffee cup and she happily complied.
  • //There will be penalties against individuals who fail to comply.
First Known Use
1602, in the meaning defined at sense 2
History and Etymology
earlier, "to accommodate oneself (to), go along (with), meet the expectations (of), satisfy (obligations of courtesy)," borrowed from Spanish cumplir in this sense, from the earlier transitive senses "carry out, execute, fulfill," going back, with conjugation change, to Latin complēre "to fill" — more at complete entry 1

NOTE: The verb comply appears more likely to have been borrowed directly from Spanish rather than via Italian (pace the Oxford English Dictionary, first edition). Its use in literate discourse may have grown out of the vogue for Spanish romances that began with The mirrour of princely deedes and knighthood, a translation by Margaret Tyler of Diego Ortúñez de Calahorra's Espejo de príncipes y caballeros that was first printed in 1578. An early example of comply in the relevant sense occurs in another translation of Espejo, by "R.P." (Robert Parry or Parke), printed abou