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conceitful

conceitful adjective: imaginative, clever.

Adjective

conceitful (comparative more conceitful, superlative most conceitful)

  1. Imaginative, clever.
    • she gan to cast / In her conceiptfull mynd that this faire Mayd / Was that same infant, which so long sith past / She in the open fields had loosely layd […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Antonyms of conceitful

Forms of conceitful

comparativemore conceitful
superlativemost conceitful

Origin of conceitful

From conceit + -ful.

Questions about conceitful

What does conceitful mean?
Conceitful means imaginative, clever.
What part of speech is conceitful?
Conceitful is an adjective.

Words near conceitful in the dictionary

  1. conceitedest
  2. conceitedly
  3. conceitedness
  4. conceitest
  5. conceiteth
  6. conceitful
  7. conceiting
  8. conceitless
  9. conceitlessness
  10. conceits
  11. conceiue

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