conceit
Meaning of conceit
noun
- excessive pride in oneself.
he was puffed up with conceit
- an ingenious or fanciful comparison or metaphor.
the idea of the wind's singing is a prime romantic conceit
late Middle English (in the sense ‘notion’, also ‘quaintly decorative article’): from conceive, on the pattern of pairs such as deceive, deceit .
Information about conceit
- It is a name.
- The plural form of conceit is: conceits.
- Languages in which conceit is used:
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Hyphenation of conceit
con-ceit
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- conceit is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
conceit synonyms
Meaning amour propre:
Meaning conceitedness:
Meaning excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one's physical appearance:
Meaning the fact of being excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself:
Meaning another term for egotism:
Meaning obsessive egotism or self-centredness:
Meaning the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance:
Meaning the quality of being arrogant:
Meaning excessive pride or self-confidence:
Meaning lack of humility or decency:
Meaning excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements:
Meaning a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements:
Meaning excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements; excessive vanity:
Meaning a simile or metaphor:
Meaning visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work:
Meaning a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable:
Meaning a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ):
Meaning a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression:
Meaning a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings:
Meaning a witty remark:
conceit antonyms
Meaning the quality or state of being unassuming in the estimation of one's abilities:
Meaning the quality of having a modest or low view of one's importance:
Translation of conceit
- German: Einbildung, Eitelkeit
- Italian: presunzione, vanità, saccenteria
- Spanish: engreimiento, vanidad
- French: vanité
- Portuguese: vaidade
Anagrams of conceit
Words that rhyme with conceit
deceit, nondeceit, forconceit, misconceit, preconceit
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