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# conceited

«conceited» in Mova's school dictionary: **cleverer, better-looking or more important than you are** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (conceited, more conceited, most conceited)

### meaning for a pupil

Too proud of yourself; thinking you are cleverer, better-looking or more important than you are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conceited/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, a conceited character often boasts and then gets a lesson. Toad in The Wind in the Willows is very conceited: he sings songs about how wonderful he is («The world has held great Heroes… but never a name to go down to fame compared with that of Toad!»). Kipling's Just So animals can be conceited too. The noun is conceit. Opposite: modest, humble.

### examples

- Toad was so conceited that he wrote songs about himself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conceited/#x1)
- She is clever but not at all conceited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conceited/#x2)
- Don't be conceited just because you won. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conceited/#x3)
- The conceited peacock spread his tail for everyone to admire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conceited/#x4)
- Badger told Toad to stop being so conceited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conceited/#x5)
- It sounded conceited when he said he was the best player in the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conceited/#x6)
- Nobody likes a conceited winner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conceited/#x7)
- "How conceited you are!" exclaimed the beetle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conceited/#x8)

### note

The noun is conceit (also an old word for a clever idea in a poem). Similar words: vain, big-headed, arrogant, stuck-up (informal). Spelling: ei after c — conceited.

### In the corpora

- [He's kind and good-natured — though perhaps not very clever, and rather boastful and conceited.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/7/)
- [Perhaps he's not very clever ... and it may be that he is both boastful and conceited.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/24/)
- [Conceited = thinks too much of himself; boastful = always showing off about what he has or does.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/26/)
- [The book calls it «perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/2/)
- [«There was a great deal more of the same sort, but too dreadfully conceited to be written down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/63-willows-ch10-part3-the-conceited-song/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conceited» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conceited/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.