Meaning of CONCEITED
| Pronunciation: | | kun'seetid
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| | Definition: | | [adj] characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" |
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| | Synonyms: | | egotistic, egotistical, proud, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Con*ceit"ed\, a.
1. Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.]
He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
--Knolles.
2. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain.
If you think me too conceited Or to passion quickly
heated. --Swift.
Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.
--Bentley.
3. Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.]
A conceited chair to sleep in. --Evelyn.
Syn: Vain; proud; opinionated; egotistical.
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| | Related Terms: | | aggressively self-confident, arrogant, biggety, boastful, boasting, braggart, bragging, bumptious, chesty, cocky, complacent, coxcombical, dandified, dandy, egocentric, egotistical, fanfaron, fanfaronading, foppish, Gascon, gasconading, haughty, immodest, know-it-all, narcissistic, obtrusive, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert, prideful, proud, puffed up, self, self-admiring, self-advertising, self-applauding, self-conceited, self-flattering, self-glorious, self-important, self-lauding, self-opinionated, self-satisfied, self-vaunting, smart-alecky, smug, snobbish, snotty, stuck-up, swelled-headed, thrasonic, thrasonical, vain, vainglorious, vaporing, vaunting |
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