Definitions for conceit

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conceit con·ceit

Spelling: [kuh n-seet]

IPA: /kənˈsit/

Conceit is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in conceit (cceinot).

Definitions for conceit

noun

1. an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc.
2. something that is conceived in the mind; a thought; idea:
3. imagination; fancy.
4. a fancy; whim; fanciful notion.
5. an elaborate, fanciful metaphor, especially of a strained or far-fetched nature.
6. the use of such metaphors as a literary characteristic, especially in poetry.
7. a fancy, purely decorative article.
8. British Dialect. favorable opinion; esteem. personal opinion or estimation.
9. Obsolete. the faculty of conceiving; apprehension.

Idioms

1. out of conceit with, displeased or dissatisfied with.

verb (used with object)

1. to flatter (especially oneself).
2. British Dialect. to take a fancy to; have a good opinion of.
3. Obsolete. to imagine. to conceive; apprehend.

Origin of conceit

1350-1400; Middle English conceyte, conceipt, derivative of conceive by analogy with deceive, deceit and

Examples for conceit

As a means of fixing the fundamental problem of adapting Gatsby, the conceit does a serviceable job of correcting a deficit.

Wolf concurs that the conceit of the show seems to have everyone but the sex worker in mind.

Too bad, though—you certainly need a wife to take the conceit out of you.

The conceit deceitful in the painting, is the imagination that means more than its says.

No, nor for you either, although I suppose you have conceit enough to think so.

Because that conceit was straight/gay vs straight/straight, I could do a lot of overtly straight humor and it would be acceptable.

This might seem like a conceit, but the end result is both troubling and overwhelmingly powerful.

And if you only knew how ignorant and frivolous these women are, despite all their conceit!

The style is stuffy, the syntax is antique, and the conceit is never really convincing.

But I don't know; you've kind o' got me out o' conceit with it.