- your sense of your own value and importance
- He has the biggest ego of anyone I've ever met.
- Winning the prize really boosted her ego.
Extra Examples- He was lucky to escape with just a bruised ego when he fell off his bike.
- It was a huge blow to her ego to find out she was so unpopular.
- Professionals need to check their egos and change their techniques.
- She likes to mix with people who flatter her ego.
- Unconditional surrender was more than his fragile ego could bear.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- bloated
- enormous
- …
- have
- boost
- feed
- …
- boost
- gratification
- trip
- …
- a blow to somebody’s ego
- a boost to somebody’s ego
- check your ego (at the door)
- …
- (psychology) the part of the mind that is responsible for your sense of who you are (= your identity)
- Freud introduced the idea that a part of the ego is unconscious.
- The part of the ego which does the criticizing is the conscience.
compare id, superego see also alter ego
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘I’.
Idioms
See ego in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee ego in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishmassage somebody's ego
- to say nice things about somebody, often in a way that is not sincere, in order to make them feel better, more confident, more attractive, etc.
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