Conceited vs Infantile - What's the difference?
conceited | infantile |
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)
Pertaining to infants.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 Childish; immature.
As adjectives the difference between conceited and infantile
is that conceited is having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical while infantile is pertaining to infants.As a verb conceited
is past tense of conceit.conceited
English
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)infantile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- infantile paralysis
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile . It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}