conceited
/kənˈsiː.tɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
adj
Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
verb
simple past and past participle of conceit
Example Sentences
- "If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated."
- "Conceited of their own wit, and science, and politeness."
- "And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, ‘Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'"
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Archaic Latin kapiō Latin capiō ▲ Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq. Latin concipiō Old French concevoirbor. Middle English conceyven Middle English conceyte English conceit Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English conceited From conceit + -ed.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more conceited (comparative)
conceiteder (comparative, nonstandard)
most conceited (superlative)
conceitedest (nonstandard, rare)