conceited
adjectiveverbattested in dialogue
- //kənˈsiː.tɪd//
Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
adjective
- 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.
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 over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, ‘Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'
- 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
obsoleteEndowed 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
obsoleteCuriously contrived or designed; fanciful.
A conceited chair to sleep in.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō ▲ Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq. Latin concipiō Old French concevoirbor. Middle English conceyven Middle English conceyte English conceit Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English conceited From conceit + -ed.
verb
- 1
Also a form of conceitsimple past and past participle of conceit
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Forms
- comparative
- more conceited, conceiteder
- superlative
- most conceited, conceitedest
conceited · Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
conceive · To have a child; to become pregnant (with).concentrate · To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more…concentrated · Not dilute; having a high concentration.