conceited

English

Alternative forms

conceipted (obsolete)

Etymology 1

conceit +‎ -ed

Adjective

conceited (comparative more conceited, superlative most conceited)

Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical.
- Jonathan Swift
  If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.
- Bentley
  Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.
(rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- 2006, A. J. Smith, Metaphysical Wit, page 20:
  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.
(obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
- Knolles
  He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
(obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
- Evelyn
  A conceited chair to sleep in.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:arrogant

Derived terms

Translations

vain and egotistic

Arabic: مَغْرُور‎‎ (maḡrūr)
Catalan: presumptuós
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自大 (zh) (zìdà), 狂妄 (zh) (kuángwàng), 囂張 (zh), 嚣张 (zh) (xiāozhāng)
Dutch: verwaand (nl)
Finnish: turhamainen (fi) (vain); itsekäs (fi) (egotistic)
French: vain (fr) m, vaniteux (fr), orgueilleux (fr), suffisant (fr), prétentieux (fr)
German: eingebildet (de)
Greek: ματαιόδοξος (el) (mataiódoxos)
Irish: stráiciúil, leitheadach, postúil, mórchúiseach, mustrach, mórálach, anbharúlach
Latvian: iedomīgs, uzpūtīgs

Maori: whakapehapeha
Norman: ordgilleux (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: innbilsk
Occitan: bufaire (oc), espompit, morrelevat, vanitós (oc), orgulhós (oc)
Portuguese: convencido (pt) m, convencida f
Romanian: înfumurat (ro) m
Russian: самодово́льный (ru) (samodovólʹnyj), тщесла́вный (ru) m (tščeslávnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: mòr às fhèin
Spanish: presuntuoso (es)
Tagalog: alangas

having an excessively favorable opinion of oneself

Finnish: itserakas (fi), omahyväinen (fi)
French: prétentieux (fr), vaniteux (fr)
Greek: φαντασμένος (el) (fantasménos)
Irish: ainiontach

Italian: pallone gonfiato, arrogante (it)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: innbilsk, pretensiøs
Polish: zarozumiały (pl) m

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Translations to be checked

Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} самонадеян (samonadejan), ^{(please verify)} суетен (sueten), ^{(please verify)} надут (nadut)
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ijdel (nl), ^{(please verify)} hoogmoedig (nl), ^{(please verify)} narcistisch, ^{(please verify)} hooghartig,
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} vantemulo, ^{(please verify)} malmodesta

French: ^{(please verify)} vaniteux (fr), ^{(please verify)} orgueilleux (fr), ^{(please verify)} prétentieux (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} narcissique (fr)
Maori: ^{(please verify)} whakakake, ^{(please verify)} whakaī

Etymology 2

See conceit (verb)

Verb

conceited

simple past tense and past participle of conceit

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