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Conceit (IPA: /kənˈsit/)

Conceit (n.)

That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.

Conceit (n.)

Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.

Conceit (n.)

Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

Conceit (n.)

A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.

Conceit (n.)

An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.

Conceit (n.)

Design; pattern.

Conceit (v. t.)

To conceive; to imagine.

Conceit (v. i.)

To form an idea; to think.

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Extended rhetorical device

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1921 film by Burton George

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Book by Mary Novik

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American musician

Conceit Synonyms

Self-love, Amour Propre, Vanity

Conceit Synonyms

Vanity, Conceitedness

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Conceit Rhymes

Beat, Beet, Bleat, Breit, Cheat, Cleat, Cliett, Crete, Eat, Feat, Feet, Fleet, Freet, Greet, Grete, Heat, Keitt, Kriete, Leet, Leete, Leite, Meat, Meet, Mete, Neat, Neet, Peat, Peet, Peete, Pete, Piet, Piette, Pleat, Prete, Quiett, Seat, Sheet, Skeat, Skeet, Skeete, Sleet, St, Street, Streett, Suite, Sweatt, Sweet, Swete, Teat, Teet, Threatt, Threet, Thweatt, Treat, Tveit, Tweet, Veit, Vliet, Wheat

Amit, Backseat, Bridgette, Bufete, Compete, Complete, Conceit, Concrete, Deceit, Defeat, Delete, Deplete, Discreet, Discrete, Downbeat, Effete, Elite, Excrete, Gamete, Jobete, Lalit, Lanete, Mistreat, Murveit, Offbeat, Petite, Poteat, Puneet, Receipt, Repeat, Replete, Retreat, Secrete, Shumeet, Unseat, Vanfleet, Vanvliet

Incomplete, Indiscreet, Marguerite, Marquerite, Noncompete, Uncomplete

Spanish Translation

Conceit in Spanish is Presunción

Tagalog Translation

Conceit in Tagalog is Kahambugan

Example Sentence (Quote) " I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault, and I have no faults." - David Lee Roth

Example Sentence (Quote) " Our self-esteem and conceit are European, but our culture and actions are Asiatic." - Anton Chekhov

Example Sentence (Quote) " Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride." - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Example Sentence (Quote) " The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise;" - Poor Richard's Almanack

Example Sentence (Quote) " The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel." - Foolishness

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