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单词 smart alec
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Synonyms of 'smart alec'

know-all, wise guy, clever-clogs, clever Dick
cocky, arrogant, conceited, brash
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(noun) 
Definition
a person who thinks he or she is an expert on every subject
Don't be such a smart alec.All right then, if you're such a smart arse, have you got any better ideas?
Synonyms
know-all (informal)
She read an article by some cosmopolitan know-all.
wise guy (informal)
clever-clogs (informal)
clever Dick (informal)
smarty pants (informal)
smartarse (slang)
smarty boots (informal)
(adjective) 
a fortyish smart-alec TV reporterI can do without your smart-arse comments, thank you.
Synonyms
cocky
He was a little cocky because he was winning all the time.
arrogant
an air of arrogant indifference
conceited
I thought him conceited and arrogant.
brash
On stage she seems hard, brash and uncompromising.
swaggering
egotistical
cocksure
a cocksure, self-confident performer
overconfident
a bunch of noisy, overconfident teenagers
swollen-headed
full of yourself
He's full of himself.
Seecocky

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smart alec

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Synonyms of 'smart alec'

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of conceited
Definition
having an excessively high opinion of oneself
I thought him conceited and arrogant.
Synonyms
self-important,
vain,
arrogant,
stuck up (informal),
cocky,
narcissistic,
puffed up,
egotistical,
overweening,
immodest,
vainglorious,
swollen-headed,
bigheaded (informal),
full of yourself,
too big for your boots or breeches
in the sense of full of yourself
Definition
full of pride or conceit
He's full of himself.
Synonyms
pleased with yourself,
cocky,
self-confident,
overconfident,
too clever by half
in the sense of overconfident
Definition
having more belief in one's abilities than is justified
a bunch of noisy, overconfident teenagers
Synonyms
cocky,
arrogant,
brash,
cocksure,
foolhardy,
presumptuous,
overweening,
bumptious,
hubristic,
riding for a fall (informal),
uppish (British, informal),
full of yourself
in the sense of swollen-headed
Synonyms
self-important,
proud,
vain,
cocky,
puffed up,
bumptious,
vainglorious,
bigheaded (informal),
full of yourself,
too big for your boots,
too big for your breeches
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