CONCEITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conceited mean? 

• CONCEITED (adjective)
  The adjective CONCEITED has 1 sense:

1. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

  Familiarity information: CONCEITED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCEITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

Synonyms:

conceited; egotistic; egotistical; self-conceited; swollen; swollen-headed; vain

Context example:

vain about her clothes

Similar:

proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)

 Context examples 

You are not really shocked: for, with your superior mind, you cannot be either so dull or so conceited as to misunderstand my meaning.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

You are getting to be rather conceited, my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was drinking in his words and smiling away, as conceited as a cock upon a wall, when, all in a breath, back went his right hand over his shoulder.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You never can show better than as your own natural self, my sweet Dora; and we'll try no conceited experiments, but go back to our old way, and be happy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Be infinitely cleverer and not half so conceited.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

They are the most conceited creatures in the world, and think themselves of so much importance!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Three girls, the two eldest sixteen and fourteen, was an awful legacy for a mother to bequeath, an awful charge rather, to confide to the authority and guidance of a conceited, silly father.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You're not a conceited boy by nature, and so I can safely tell you it is not that. It's deeper.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have indeed observed the same disposition among most of the mathematicians I have known in Europe, although I could never discover the least analogy between the two sciences; unless those people suppose, that because the smallest circle has as many degrees as the largest, therefore the regulation and management of the world require no more abilities than the handling and turning of a globe; but I rather take this quality to spring from a very common infirmity of human nature, inclining us to be most curious and conceited in matters where we have least concern, and for which we are least adapted by study or nature.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)