OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 20483

entitled

/ɪnˈtaɪtl̩d/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
intitulado
Having a title.
Her book is entitled 'My Autobiography'.
condescendiente • engreído • fatuo • presumido • presuntuoso • pretencioso
Convinced of one's own righteousness (self-righteousness) or the justifiability of one's actions or status, especially wrongly so; demanding and pretentious.
People feel entitled to their entitlement, and frequently feel defensive when it is challenged. As a mechanism of defense, entitlement may be protectively maintained, denied, or di…
THE STRAIN OF DEALING WITH ENTITLED PEOPLE. Dealing with people who are generally convinced that life (and, in particular, the clinician) owes them something can be very wearisome…