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conceited
adj 4
Collocations
5ADJ.
own, pretty
VERB + CONCEITED
bit, gotten, style, think
CONCEITED + NOUN
attitude, lards, passion, people
PREP.
with
ADV.
quite, really
Definitions
adj
1
Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.
Conceited of their own wit, and science, and politeness.
2
Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
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
Endowed with fancy or imagination.
AN EXCELLENT conceited Tragedie OF Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely
He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
4
Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
A conceited chair to sleep in.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — characteristic of false pride
- egotistic
- egotistical
- self-conceited
- swollen
- swollen-headed
- vain
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.
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Conceited of their own wit, and science, and politeness.
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And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all ove
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Conceited people take it for granted that they are superior to others.
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Everyone is more or less conceited.
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He may have lowbrow tastes but at least he's not snooty and conceited.
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