conceited
About 0.62 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
- adjective Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- adjective Endowed with fancy or imagination.
- adjective Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
- 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
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Word family
conceitedly conceitedness conceitednesses
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