Derisive vs Conceited - What's the difference?
derisive | conceited |
Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
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)
As adjectives the difference between derisive and conceited
is that derisive is expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing while conceited is having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc; vain and egotistical.As a verb conceited is
(conceit).derisive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The critic's review of the film was derisive .
- The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.
Synonyms
* (expressing or characterized by derision) mocking, ridiculing, scornful, disdainful * (deserving or provoking derision) ridiculousDerived terms
* derisivelyReferences
*Anagrams
*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.