conceited
Americanadjective
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having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.
- Synonyms:
- self-satisfied, self-important, egotistic, proud, vain
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Archaic.
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having an opinion.
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fanciful; whimsical.
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Obsolete. intelligent; clever.
adjective
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having a high or exaggerated opinion of oneself or one's accomplishments
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archaic fanciful
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obsolete witty or intelligent
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Etymology
Origin of conceited
Explanation
A conceited person has an inflated self-image and perceives himself as incredibly entertaining and wonderful. Talk incessantly about your accomplishments on the clarinet or amazing ability to wiggle your ears, and people are going to think you’re conceited. An offshoot of conceit, conceited was first recorded in 1600 as meaning “having an overwhelming opinion of oneself.” It’s a shortened form of “self-conceited” and the total opposite of "modest." In a remark about such vain people, the English Victorian novelist George Eliot once said, “I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.”
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In videos posted on social media of Young performing her song Conceited at the All Things Go Festival, she looks uncomfortable before collapsing backwards onto the stage.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025
Conceited and smug are words that look as if they were made for the pride brought on by pregnancy.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
MTV Raps, a “comprehensive deep dive into the current state of hip hop” hosted by DJ Diamond Kuts and rapper Conceited.
From The Verge • May 2, 2022
Although only an “average” Spumifer, the Breton stand-in known as the Conceited Wooleton “feels himself to be marked out for the highest moral and political destinies,” the artist wrote.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2012
Conceited, obstinate, and pugnacious, he began by alarming the South with threats of wholesale punishment for the "crime of treason," and ended by alienating his own party through his slack methods of re-establishing the States.
From History of the United States, Volume 4 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
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