Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Holding or characterized by an unduly high opinion of oneself; vain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Endowed with or characterized by fancy or imagination; ingenious; witty.
- Ingeniously or curiously contrived; fanciful.
- Entertaining an exaggerated opinion of one's own abilities, wisdom, wit, or the like; self-conceited; self-complacent.
- Having a favorable conception or opinion of any person or thing.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of conceit.
- adj. this redundant sense?) vain and egotistic
- adj. having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.
- adj. rhetoric, literature Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- adj. obsolete Endowed with fancy or imagination.
- adj. obsolete Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Endowed with fancy or imagination.
- adj. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain.
- adj. obsolete Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Etymologies
- See conceit (verb) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I am not what you call conceited enough for that, but I would like to believe that I might have a kind word or two on my own account.”
“It is foolish of them," said Johannes, "unless it is when a boy is what you call conceited and self-satisfied, and thinks that he is a man too soon.”
“The word "conceited" has been used to describe him.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“As you will see it, let 's say – if that does n't sound too conceited from a tenderfoot," supplemented the nephew, and laid his hand upon her shoulder with a gentle little pat.”
“Walden, -- she had 'tried to entangle him' -- there had been 'a scene with him at the Manor, '-- she was' forward, '' conceited '-- and utterly lost to any sense of propriety.”
“The glossy packaging of Mexico City's Vanidosas -- or "conceited" -- cookies doesn't give the slightest hint that they were created by youth living on the city's streets.”
“He had been called conceited, swell-headed, inconsiderate of others, and now this final insult was heaped upon the full measure of his wrongs, just when he had a clear vision of future achievements that should have dazzled any young woman whose life was to be linked with his.”
“Nor can he fairly be called conceited, either; that is part of his singularity.”
Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North
“He could not be called conceited; nevertheless, he was magnificently sure that he had been, and still was, the most celebrated person in the civilized world.”
“ Conceding the purchase might seem a trifle " conceited, " 31-year-old Mr. Ahmed, a former medical researcher who now works as a quantitative manager in capital markets, says he likes having something that really " represents a portion of my life artistically.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘conceited’.
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GRE Reference
A list of words unfamiliar to me that I have repeatedly encountered in GRE question sets.
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
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Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
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Words as I learn them.
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amy's GRE 2012
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Magooosh
impugn, repudiate, sardonic, barnstorm, bemoan, unseemly, cornerstone, noisome, malodorous, retroactively, spuriously, spasmodically and 217 more...
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Mid year exam
Unit 7 8 9 10 11
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must employ on more frequent occasions
These words I know, I just haven't used them in a while. Time to bring them back into vogue.
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Prady_GRE_Words
GRE Words and their usage
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pradyumnaojha Collegues do not hang around with Peter as he is a conceited person Feb 15, 2013