Conceited vs Studied - What's the difference?
conceited | studied |
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)
(study)
Practiced; self-conscious; careful.
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As adjectives the difference between conceited and studied
is that conceited is having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc; vain and egotistical while studied is practiced; self-conscious; careful.As verbs the difference between conceited and studied
is that conceited is (conceit) while studied is (study).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)studied
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* studiedly * studiednessAdjective
(head)citation, passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}