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Conceited

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. rhetoric

    "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. 3
    Endowed with fancy or imagination. obsolete

    "AN EXCELLENT conceited Tragedie OF Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely"

  4. 4
    Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. obsolete

    "A conceited chair to sleep in."

Adjective
  1. 1
    characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of conceit form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From conceit + -ed.

Etymology 2

See conceit (verb).

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