EGAVE

conceited

About 0.62 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
  2. adjective Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
  3. adjective Endowed with fancy or imagination.
  4. adjective Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
  5. verb simple past and past participle of conceit

Similar words

vain self-conceited egotistical proud egotistic swollen swollen-headed pretentious stuck-up cocky

Often followed by

and man of about as to young enough or

Word family

conceitedly conceitedness conceitednesses

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