Adjective: conceited
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more conceited |
| Superlative | most conceited |
Sample Sentences
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If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated. [c. 1732, Jonathan Swift, Epistle to a Lady:]
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Conceited of their own wit, and science, and politeness. [1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:]
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And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, ‘Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?' [1877, Emma Jane Worboise, “The New Evangeline”, in The Grey House at Endlestone, London: James Clarke and Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 480:]
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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:]
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AN EXCELLENT conceited Tragedie OF Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely [c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
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He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. [1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:]
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A conceited chair to sleep in. [1644 November 19 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 10 November 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:]
Adjectives inflected like conceited
shining,
zealous,
nervous,
complex,
uncertain,
important,
conceited,
behind,
illegal,
honest,
dangerous,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
4. Proto-Italic *kom
5. Proto-Italic *kom-
6. Latin con-
7. substratebor.?
8. Proto-Indo-European *kap-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
10. Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
11. Proto-Italic *kapjō
12. Old Latin kapiō
13. Latin capiō
14. ▲
15. Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq.
16. Latin concipiō
17. Old French concevoirbor.
18. Middle English conceyven
19. Middle English conceyte
20. English conceit
21. Old English -ed
22. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
23. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
24. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
25. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
26. Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz
27. Old English -od
28. Middle English -ed
29. English -ed
30. English conceited
31. From conceit + -ed.