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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONCEITED, pp.
1. Conceived; imagined; fancied.
2. Endowed with fancy, or imagination.
3. Entertaining a flattering opinion of ones self; having a vain or too high conception of ones own person or accomplishments; vain.
If you think me too conceited, or to passion quickly heated.
Followed by of before the object of conceit.
The Athenians were conceited of their own wit, science and politeness.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" [syn: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self- conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: ¹conceit Date: 1526 1. ingeniously contrived ; fanciful 2. having or showing an excessively high opinion of oneself • conceitedly adverb • conceitedness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. vain, proud. Derivatives: conceitedly adv. conceitedness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Conceited Con*ceit"ed, a. 1. Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.] He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. --Knolles. 2. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain. If you think me too conceited Or to passion quickly heated. --Swift. Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness. --Bentley. 3. Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.] A conceited chair to sleep in. --Evelyn. Syn: Vain; proud; opinionated; egotistical.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that someone is conceited, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they are far too proud of their abilities or achievements. I thought him conceited and arrogant... = arrogant ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Vain, egotistical, opinionated, opinionative, self-conceited, self-sufficient.

Moby Thesaurus

Gascon, aggressively self-confident, arrogant, biggety, boastful, boasting, braggart, bragging, bumptious, chesty, cocky, complacent, coxcombical, dandified, dandy, egocentric, egotistical, fanfaron, fanfaronading, foppish, gasconading, haughty, immodest, know-it-all, narcissistic, obtrusive, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert, prideful, proud, puffed up, self, self-admiring, self-advertising, self-applauding, self-conceited, self-flattering, self-glorious, self-important, self-lauding, self-opinionated, self-satisfied, self-vaunting, smart-alecky, smug, snobbish, snotty, stuck-up, swelled-headed, thrasonic, thrasonical, vain, vainglorious, vaporing, vaunting