conceited

Definition

Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.

Etymology

From conceit + -ed.

Example Sentences

• "If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated."
• "Conceited of their own wit, and science, and politeness."
• "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'?'"