conceited

conceited
    adj 1: 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" [syn:
           {conceited}, {egotistic}, {egotistical}, {self-
           conceited}, {swollen}, {swollen-headed}, {vain}]
    

Conceited \Con*ceit"ed\, a.
   1. Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.]
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            He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
                                                  --Knolles.
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   2. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain.
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            If you think me too conceited
            Or to passion quickly heated.         --Swift.
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            Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.
                                                  --Bentley.
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   3. Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.]
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            A conceited chair to sleep in.        --Evelyn.

   Syn: Vain; proud; opinionated; egotistical.
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59 Moby Thesaurus words for "conceited":
      Gascon, aggressively self-confident, arrogant, biggety, boastful,
      boasting, braggart, bragging, bumptious, chesty, cocky, complacent,
      coxcombical, dandified, dandy, egocentric, egotistical, fanfaron,
      fanfaronading, foppish, gasconading, haughty, immodest,
      know-it-all, narcissistic, obtrusive, overwise, peacockish,
      peacocky, perk, perky, pert, prideful, proud, puffed up, self,
      self-admiring, self-advertising, self-applauding, self-conceited,
      self-flattering, self-glorious, self-important, self-lauding,
      self-opinionated, self-satisfied, self-vaunting, smart-alecky,
      smug, snobbish, snotty, stuck-up, swelled-headed, thrasonic,
      thrasonical, vain, vainglorious, vaporing, vaunting