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29 words match “CONCEITED”

CONCEITED a. 3 definitions

Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.] He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. Knolles.

CONCEITEDLY adv. 2 definitions

In an egotistical manner.

CONCEITEDNESS n.

The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.

SELF-CONCEITED a.

Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited. -- Self`-con*ceit"ed*ness, n.

Affected; conceited. [Obs.] Shak.

Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited. [Arhaic] A brag young fellow. B. Jonson.

Self-conceited; forward; pushing. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

BUMPTIOUSNESS n.

Conceitedness. [Colloq.]

A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop. Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee. Goldsmith. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope.…

Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited. -- Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv. Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails. W. Irving.

COXCOMICALLY adv.

Conceitedly. [R.]

n; inclined to hope; expectant. Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited. Hooker.

A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow. A young upstart jackanapes. Arbuthnot.

A conceited dolt; a perverse blockhead. Jackass bark (Naut.), a three-masted vessel, with only the foremast square-rigged; a barkentine. -- Jackass deer (Zoöl.), the koba. -- Jackass hare, Jackass rabbit (Zoöl.). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack, n. -- Jackass penguin (Zoöl.), any species of penguin of the genus Sphen…

Small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food; a little air or water. Conceited of their little wisdoms, and doting upon their own fancies. Barrow.

Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness. [Obs.] Shak.

OPINIONATELY adv.

Conceitedly. Feltham.

Opinionated; conceited. His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton.

g or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume. They that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen. Milton.

Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited. -- O`ver*ween"ingly, adv. Milton. -- O`ver*ween"ing*ness, n. Here's an overweening rogue. Shak.