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思い上がる · godan verb (-ru)

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	思おもい上あがる	思おもい上あがらない
Polite	思おもい上あがります	思おもい上あがりません
Past polite	思おもい上あがりました	思おもい上あがりませんでした
Past	思おもい上あがった	思おもい上あがらなかった
Te-form	思おもい上あがって	思おもい上あがらないで
Desire	思おもい上あがりたい	思おもい上あがりたくない
Potential	思おもい上あがれる	思おもい上あがれない
Passive	思おもい上あがられる	思おもい上あがられない
Causative	思おもい上あがらせる	思おもい上あがらせない
Causative passive	思おもい上あがらせられるalso 思おもい上あがらされる	思おもい上あがらせられないalso 思おもい上あがらされない
Volitional	思おもい上あがろう
Polite volitional	思おもい上あがりましょう
Imperative	思おもい上あがれ	思おもい上あがるな
Conditional	思おもい上あがれば	思おもい上あがらなければ
Tara conditional	思おもい上あがったら	思おもい上あがらなかったら

Meanings

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

be conceited; get a big head; think too highly of oneself

Describes someone becoming arrogant or full of themselves, often due to success or praise. Intransitive; the subject is the person who becomes conceited.

彼かれは少すこし成せい功こうしただけで思おもい上あがっている。
He's gotten a big head just from a little success.
思おもい上あがるな。
Don't get conceited.

Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉が〈事こと〉と思おもい上あがるfor someone to conceitedly believe that...
彼かれは自じ分ぶんが誰だれよりも優すぐれていると思おもい上あがっている。
He conceitedly believes that he is superior to everyone else.
思おもい上あがった〈人ひと〉a conceited (person)
彼かの女じょは成せい功こうして思おもい上あがった人ひとになってしまった。
She succeeded and turned into a conceited person.
思おもい上あがるなdon't get a big head
少すこし褒ほめられたくらいで思おもい上あがるな。
Don't get a big head just because you were praised a little.

Kanji

思think
上above, up

Related words

うぬぼれるN1
うぬぼれる stresses narcissistic self-admiration, while 思い上がる stresses an inflated sense of one's own importance or ability compared to others.
天てん狗ぐになる
天狗になる is a vivid, colloquial idiom for getting a swelled head, whereas 思い上がる is a more neutral, written-register verb with the same meaning.

Opposites

謙けん遜そんN2
謙遜する means to be humble and downplay oneself, the opposite attitude to 思い上がる, which means to become conceited.

Don't confuse with

思おもい込こむN2
思い込む means to become convinced of something (often mistakenly), while 思い上がる specifically means to become conceited about oneself; learners confuse them because both start with 思い.

Word family

思おもい上あがり
conceit; hubris; vanity; presumption

Built from

思おもう+上あがる

Written forms

思おもい上あがるUsage69%
Standard kanji spelling; high priority.
思おもいあがるUsage31%
Mixed kanji-kana spelling; less common but still used.

Etymology

Compound of 思い (thought, feeling) and 上がる (to rise, go up). The literal sense of one's thoughts rising suggests an inflated self-image.

Meanings

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

be conceited; get a big head; think too highly of oneself

Describes someone becoming arrogant or full of themselves, often due to success or praise. Intransitive; the subject is the person who becomes conceited.

彼かれは少すこし成せい功こうしただけで思おもい上あがっている。
He's gotten a big head just from a little success.
思おもい上あがるな。
Don't get conceited.

Related words

うぬぼれるN1

うぬぼれる stresses narcissistic self-admiration, while 思い上がる stresses an inflated sense of one's own importance or ability compared to others.

天てん狗ぐになる

天狗になる is a vivid, colloquial idiom for getting a swelled head, whereas 思い上がる is a more neutral, written-register verb with the same meaning.