conceited

Speech parts

1. conceited - Adjective

2. conceited - Verb

3. conceited - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Endowed with fancy or imagination.

Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain.

Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

vain egotistical proud swollen egotistic self-conceited swollen-headed pontifical superior entitled selfish inflated arrogant pretentious pompous
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Antonyms

meek down-to-earth beneficent bashful controlled modest
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Phrases with the word

conceited as a barber's cat as conceited as a barber's cat less conceited be conceited conceited person more conceited

Examples

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. George Eliot

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. Benjamin Disraeli

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. Oscar Wilde

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault, and I have no faults. David Lee Roth

Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety. William Hazlitt

When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited. Isa Bowman

Close letter words and terms

Conceicao conceipt conceit conceited as a barber's cat conceited person conceitedly