Conceited vs Pompous - What's the difference?
conceited | pompous | Synonyms |
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)
Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
Pompous is a synonym of conceited.
As adjectives the difference between conceited and pompous
is that conceited is having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical while pompous is affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.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)pompous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous , and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."