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Arrogant vs. Conceited

Arrogant and Conceited Definitions

Arrogant

Having or displaying excessive pride in oneself or an excessive sense of self-importance.

Conceited

Holding or characterized by an unduly high opinion of oneself; vain.

Arrogant

Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority over others
An arrogant contempt for the weak.

Conceited

Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.

Arrogant

Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.

Conceited

Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
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Arrogant

Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; - applied to persons.
Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate.

Conceited

(obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.

Arrogant

Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; - applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.

Conceited

(obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.

Arrogant

Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride;
An arrogant official
Arrogant claims
Chesty as a peacock

Conceited

Simple past tense and past participle of conceit
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Conceited

Endowed with fancy or imagination.
He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.

Conceited

Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain.
If you think me too conceitedOr to passion quickly heated.
Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.

Conceited

Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
A conceited chair to sleep in.

Conceited

Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance;
A conceited fool
An attitude of self-conceited arrogance
An egotistical disregard of others
So swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty
Growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary
Vain about her clothes

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