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conceited

adj

Etymology

From conceit + -ed.

  1. inherited from conceyte
  2. suffixed as conceited — “conceit + ed”

Definitions

  1. Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.

    Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.

    • If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.
    • Conceited of their own wit, and science, and politeness.

  2. Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used…

    Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.

    • 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.

  3. Endowed with fancy or imagination.

    • AN EXCELLENT conceited Tragedie OF Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely
    • He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Curiously contrived or designed

      Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.

      • A conceited chair to sleep in.

    2. simple past and past participle of conceit

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at conceited. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at conceited. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at conceited

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA