Overconfident vs Conceited - What's the difference?
overconfident | conceited |
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)
Conceited is a synonym of overconfident.
As adjectives the difference between overconfident and conceited
is that overconfident is too confident while conceited is having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical.As a verb conceited is
past tense of conceit.overconfident
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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.