conceited

English

Alternative forms

• conceipted (obsolete)

Etymology 1

conceit +‎ -ed

Adjective

conceited ‎(comparative more conceited, superlative most conceited)

1. 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.

2. (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.

3. (obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
   • Knolles

     He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.

4. (obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
   • Evelyn

     A conceited chair to sleep in.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:arrogant

Derived terms

• conceitedly
• conceitedness

Translations

vain and egotistic

• Catalan: presumptuós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自大 (zh), 狂妄 (zh), 囂張 (zh)

• Dutch: verwaand (nl)
• French: vain (fr) m
• German: eingebildet (de)
• Greek: ματαιόδοξος (el) ‎(mataiódoxos)

• Maori: whakapehapeha
• Norman: ordgilleux
• Latvian: iedomīgs, uzpūtīgs
• Portuguese: convencido (pt) m, convencida f
• Romanian: înfumurat (ro) m
• Russian: самодово́льный (ru) ‎(samodovólʹnyj), тщесла́вный (ru) m ‎(tščeslávnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: mòr às fhèin
• Spanish: presuntuoso (es)
• Tagalog: alangas

having an excessively favorable opinion of oneself

• French: prétentieux (fr), vaniteux (fr)
• Greek: φαντασμένος (el) ‎(fantasménos)

• Italian: pallone gonfiato, arrogante (it)
• Polish: zarozumiały (pl) m

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• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} самонадеян ‎(samonadejan), ^{(please verify)} суетен ‎(sueten), ^{(please verify)} надут ‎(nadut)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ijdel (nl), ^{(please verify)} hoogmoedig (nl), ^{(please verify)} narcistisch, ^{(please verify)} hooghartig,
• Esperanto: vantemulo, malmodesta
• Finnish: turhamainen, itserakas (fi), itsekeskeinen (fi)
• French: vaniteux (fr), orgueilleux (fr), prétentieux (fr) m, narcissique (fr)
• Maori: whakakake, whakaī

Etymology 2

See conceit (verb)

Verb

conceited

1. simple past tense and past participle of conceit