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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conceited \Con*ceit"ed\, a.
1. Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.]
He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
--Knolles.
2. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self vain.
If you think me too conceited Or to passion quickly
heated. --Swift.
Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.
--Bentley.
3. Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.]
A conceited chair to sleep in --Evelyn.
Syn: Vain; proud; opinionated; egotistical.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
conceited
adj : characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense
of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of
self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of
others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for
normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and
arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" [syn: {egotistic},
{egotistical}, {self-conceited}, {swollen}, {swollen-headed},
{vain}]
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