conceited
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- conceipted (obsolete)
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
conceited (comparative more conceited, superlative most conceited)
- Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical.
- Jonathan Swift
- If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.
- Bentley
- Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.
- Jonathan Swift
- (rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- 2006, A. J. Smith, Metaphysical Wit, page 20:
- Conceited wit showed its character towards the end of the fifteenth century in the work of poets who made it their aim to exercise their hearers' minds with cleaver plays of metaphor and ingenious reasoning.
- (obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
- Knolles
- He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
- Knolles
- (obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
- Evelyn
- A conceited chair to sleep in.
- Evelyn
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
vain and egotistic
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having an excessively favorable opinion of oneself
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Etymology 2[edit]
See conceit (verb)
Verb[edit]
conceited
- simple past tense and past participle of conceit