conceitful en · ADJ
Etymology
From conceit + -ful.
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more conceitful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most conceitful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |