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Definition: Self-conceited |
Self-conceitedAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-conceited" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
Synonyms: Self-conceitedSynonyms: conceited (adj), egotistic (adj), egotistical (adj), swollen (adj), swollen-headed (adj), vain (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Self-conceited |
| English words defined with "self-conceited": conceited ♦ egotistic, egotistical ♦ swollen, swollen-headed ♦ vain. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "self-conceited": Ague-cheek ♦ COXCOMB. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "self-conceited": Bumptious. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
William M. Thackeray | People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Self-conceited" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-conceited" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-conceited"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mendjemadh (arrogant, conceited, haughty, proud-spirited, stuck up, vain, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Arabic | مغرور (allured, arrogant, cocky, conceited, dazzled, deceived, deluded, fooled, haughty, lured, misled, overweening, popinjay, proud, self-important, snobbish, vain, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Chinese | 自负 (Egotism, Egotistic, Egotistical, Self-conceit, vain). (various references) | |
Greek | φαντασμένοσ (bumptious, cocky, conceited, coxcomb, hoity toity, jackanapes, ladida, opinionated, priggish, self-important, smug, snobbish, snooty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy), επηρμένοσ (above oneself, conceited), τυφώδησ (typhous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nagyképű (bumptious, consequential, gobbledygook, large, pedantic, pompous, self-conscious, sententious, show-off, stuck-up), hiú (chesty, foppish, frustrate, illusory, vain), elbizakodott (cock-sure, consequential, overweening, perky, pretentious, self-complacent, self-confident, self-important, stuck-up, uppity), beképzelt (boastful, cocky, foppish, have fire in one's belly, high and mighty, high minded, overweening, self-confident, self-important, smarty, snooty, stuck-up, swell-headed, to think no small potatoes of oneself, to think too much of oneself, uppish, uppity), öntelt (arrogant, cocky, complacent, conceited, consequential, coxy, high and mighty, lofty, presuming, priggish, proud, self confident, self-confident, self-important, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, stuck-up), önhitt (bumptious, dandified young man, hubristic, perky, presumptuous, priggish, proud, self sufficient, self-complacent, self-important, supercilious). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elf-conceitedsay.(various references) | |
Romanian | plin de sine (bumptious, consequential, fatuous, pompous, portentous, puffy, self-important), îngâmfat (arrogant, assuming, bloated, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, flaunty, fop, haughtily, inflated, perky, presumptuous, self-pleasing, snooty, stuck up, supercilious, swollen, vainglorious), încrezut (arrogant, assertive, bumptious, cocksure, cocky, conceited, high minded, jackanapes, opinioned, presuming, presumptuous, self confident, self-important, stuck up, supercilious, uppish, vain). (various references) | |
Spanish | presumido (attitudinizer, boastful, cocksure, conceited, hoity toity, pompous, poseur, presumptuous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self-assertive, self-important, show off, smug, snooty, stuck up, vain, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зарозумілий (arrogant, audacious, contemptuous, dogmatic, dogmatical, domineering, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, lordly, overbearing, overly, overweening, proud, self-explanatory, self-important, snooty, stately, stiff necked, stuck up, topping, upstage). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tự phụ (bumptious, cocksy, cocky, conceited, coxy, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious), hợm mình. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "self-conceited" (pronounced 'Self`-con*ceit"ed'): Able-minded, Aborted, Absent-minded, Abstorted, Adfected, Adusted, Affriended, Apiked, Arcaded, Aspected, Barded, Becomed, Bifronted, Bivaulted, Bladed, Bloody-minded, Bracted, Breaded, Brocaded, Brouded, Cisted, Clifted, Coadapted, Cockaded, Complected, Conceited, Confated, Congested, Contented, Contorted, Cysted, Debted, demented, Encysted, flighted, Forerecited, Forfered, Forted, Fronded, frosted, Fusted, Gaited, gated, hearted, high-minded, interrelated, Lered, Longheaded, long-winded, Maked. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
-2 letters: deflections. | |
-3 letters: conflicted, defections, deflection, fieldstone. | |
-4 letters: conceited, confected, conflicts, decencies, defection, deletions, denticles, elections, flections, fleeciest, inflected, licencees, occidents, scolecite, sectioned, selection, stenciled. | |
-5 letters: centiles, cineoles, closeted, codeines, coleseed, concedes, conceits, confects, confides, conflict, declines, defences, deflects, deletion, denticle, deselect, ecocides, election, elenctic, enclosed, enlisted, enlistee, entoiled, feedlots, felonies, felstone, flection, inclosed, infected. | |
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