Conceited vs Conceived - What's the difference?
conceited | conceived |
Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical.
* Jonathan Swift
* Bentley
(rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
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(obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
* Knolles
(obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
* Evelyn
(conceit)
(conceive)
To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
* 1606 , , Shakespeare, II-4
* Gibbon
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
To understand (someone).
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Jonathan Swift
(senseid)(intransitive, or, transitive) To become pregnant.
* Bible, Luke i. 36
As verbs the difference between conceited and conceived
is that conceited is (conceit) while conceived is (conceive).As an adjective conceited
is having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc; vain and egotistical.conceited
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Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)- If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.
- Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.
- He was pleasantly conceited , and sharp of wit.
- A conceited chair to sleep in.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* conceitedly * conceitednessEtymology 2
See (conceit) (verb)Verb
(head)conceived
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Verb
(head)conceive
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(conceiv)- We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
- It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.
- I conceive you.
- You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
- She hath also conceived a son in her old age.