conceited

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   excessively proud of oneself; vain

   He grew so conceited after the award that no one could stand him.

From conceit + -ed. Conceit (originally 'a thought, fanciful notion of oneself') derives from conceive, from Old French concevoir, from Latin concipere ('to take in, conceive'), from com- (intensive) + capere ('to take').

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