conceited

Etymology 1

From conceit + -ed.

adj

  1. 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. c. 1732, Jonathan Swift, Epistle to a Lady
  2. (rhetoric, literature) 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. 2006, A. J. Smith, Metaphysical Wit, page 20
  3. (obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
  4. (obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.

Etymology 2

See conceit (verb).

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of conceit

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