conceited
Adjective
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Adjective
conceited
- Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical.
- c. 1732, Jonathan Swift, Epistle to a Lady
- If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.
- Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.
- c. 1732, Jonathan Swift, Epistle to a Lady
- (rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- (obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
- He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
- (obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
- A conceited chair to sleep in.
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
- French: vain, vaniteux, orgueilleux, suffisant, prétentieux
- German: eingebildet
- Portuguese: convencido
- Russian: самодово́льный
- Spanish: presuntuoso
- French: prétentieux, vaniteux
- Italian: pallone gonfiato, arrogante
- Simple past tense and past participle of conceit
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