Associations to the word «Conceited»

Wiktionary

CONCEITED, adjective. Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical.
CONCEITED, adjective. (rhetoric) (literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
CONCEITED, adjective. (obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
CONCEITED, adjective. (obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
CONCEITED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of conceit

Dictionary definition

CONCEITED, adjective. 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".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn