Conceited

  • 11conceited — Synonyms and related words: Gascon, aggressively self confident, arrogant, biggety, boastful, boasting, braggart, bragging, bumptious, chesty, cocky, complacent, coxcombical, dandified, dandy, egocentric, egotistical, fanfaron, fanfaronading,… …

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  • 12conceited — con|ceit|ed [ kən sitəd ] adjective someone who is conceited behaves in a way that shows they think they are very intelligent, skillful, or attractive. This word shows that you do not like people like this. ╾ con|ceit|ed|ly adverb …

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  • 13conceited — a. Vain, egotistical, opinionated, opinionative, self conceited, self sufficient …

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  • 14conceited — adjective behaving in a way that shows you think you are very clever, skilful, beautiful etc: He s a conceited little so and so. conceitedly adverb: I knew that, he said conceitedly …

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  • 15conceited — adjective she s too conceited to think she might not get the lead role Syn: vain, narcissistic, self centered, egotistic, egotistical, egocentric; proud, arrogant, boastful, full of oneself, self important, immodest, swaggering; self satisfied,… …

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  • 16conceited — UK [kənˈsiːtɪd] / US [kənˈsɪtəd] adjective someone who is conceited behaves in a way that shows they think they are very intelligent, skilful, or attractive. This word shows that you do not like people like this. Derived word: conceitedly adverb …

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  • 17conceited — adjective Etymology: 1conceit Date: 1526 1. ingeniously contrived ; fanciful 2. having or showing an excessively high opinion of oneself • conceitedly adverb …

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  • 18conceited — conceitedly, adv. conceitedness, n. /keuhn see tid/, adj. 1. having an excessively favorable opinion of one s abilities, appearance, etc. 2. Archaic. a. having an opinion. b. fanciful; whimsical. 3. Obs. intelligent; clever. [1535 45; CONCEIT +… …

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  • 19conceited — adjective a) vain and egotistic b) having an excessively favorable opinion of ones abilities, appearance, etc …

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  • 20conceited — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. vain, arrogant, stuck up*; see egotistic 2 , proud 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. egotistical, proud, vain, bigheaded, arrogant, vainglorious, *full of oneself, *in love with oneself, puffed up, immodest,… …

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