Conceited

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conceited \Con*ceit"ed\, a.
     1. Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.]
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              He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
                                                    --Knolles.


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     2. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain.
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              If you think me too conceited
              Or to passion quickly heated.         --Swift.
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              Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.
                                                    --Bentley.
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     3. Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.]
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              A conceited chair to sleep in.        --Evelyn.
  
     Syn: Vain; proud; opinionated; egotistical.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  conceited
       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" [syn: {egotistic},
              {egotistical}, {self-conceited}, {swollen}, {swollen-headed},
              {vain}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "conceited":
     Gascon, aggressively self-confident, arrogant, biggety, boastful,
     boasting, braggart, bragging, bumptious, chesty, cocky, complacent,
     coxcombical, dandified, dandy, egocentric, egotistical, fanfaron,
     fanfaronading, foppish, 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