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Word Meanings - SELF-CONCEITED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • SELF-CONCEIT
    Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
  • CONCEITEDLY
    1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
  • CONCEITEDNESS
    The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
  • ORACULAR
    1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue. 2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. They have something venerable and oracular
  • SELF-CONCEITED
    Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited. -- Self`-con*ceit"ed*ness, n.
  • DICTATORIAL
    1. Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute. Military powers quite dictatorial. W. Irving. 2. Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner. -- Dic`ta*to"ri*al*ly, adv. -- Dic`ta*to"ri*al*ness,
  • CONCEIT
    conception, fr. concipere to conceive: cf. OF. p. p. nom. conciez 1. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Bacon. A man wise
  • DOGMATICALLY
    In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.
  • EGOTISTICALLY
    With egotism.
  • CONCEITLESS
    Without wit; stupid. Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless. To be seduced by thy flattery Shak.
  • DOGMATICALNESS
    The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.
  • CONCEITED
    1. Endowed with fancy or imagination. 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
  • OPINIONATIVE
    1. Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton. 2. Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured. "Things both opinionative and practical." Bunyan. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ness, n.
  • DOGMATIC; DOGMATICAL
    1. Pertaining to a dogma, or to an established and authorized doctrine or tenet. 2. Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing. Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way.
  • MISCONCEIT
    Misconception.
  • PRECONCEIT
    An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a preconception. Hooker.
  • EGOTISTIC; EGOTISTICAL
    Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism. Syn. -- Conceited; vain; self-important; opinionated.

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