Conceit

Definition: Conceit

Conceit

Noun

1. Feelings of excessive pride.

2. The trait of being vain and conceited.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "conceit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Conceit

Affectation

Conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism.

Dislike

Adjective: disliking; Verb: averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse; shy of, sick of, out of conceit with; disinclined; heartsick, dogsick; queasy.

Idea

View; (opinion); theory; conceit, fancy; phantasy; (imagination).point of view; (aspect); field of view.

Imagination

Conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare.

Imbecility Folly

Folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry; giddiness; (inattention); eccentricity; extravagance; (absurdity); rashness.

Supposition

Conceit, idea, thought; original idea, invention (imagination).

Vanity

Self-satisfied, self-confident, self-sufficient, self-flattering, self-admiring, self-applauding, self-glorious, self-opinionated; entente; (wrongheaded); wise in one's own conceit, pragmatical, overwise, pretentious, priggish; egotistic, egotistical; soi-disant; (boastful); arrogant.

Noun: vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation, self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre; selfishness.

Wit

Word-play, jeu de mots; play of words, play upon words; pun, punning; double entente, double entendre; (ambiguity); quibble, verbal quibble; conundrum; (riddle); anagram, acrostic, double acrostic, trifling, idle conceit, turlupinade.

Jest, joke, jape, jibe; facetiae, levity, quips and cranks; capital joke; canorae nugae; standing jest, standing joke, private joke, conceit, quip, quirk, crank, quiddity, concetto, plaisanterie, brilliant idea; merry thought, bright thought, happy thought; sally; flash of wit, flash of merriment; scintillation; mot, mot pour rire; witticism, smart saying, bon-mot,jeu d'esprit,epigram; jest book; dry joke, quodlibet, cream of the jest.

Crosswords: Conceit

We hope you found it entertaining, whimsical, and yet relevant, with an underlined revisionist conceit that belie the film's emotional attachments to the subject matter (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner)

You think you're so high and mighty, when really it's only abomniable conceit. (A Room with a View; writing credit: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. based on the novel by E.M. Forster.)

My Lord Conceit (1921)

Conceit (1921)

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Books

• A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) (reference)

• Black conceit (reference)

• Confidence Without Conceit (reference)

• Dark Conceit the Making of Allegory (reference)

• Fatal Conceit (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And that duty which is comprehended in the word honour, requires less obedience, though the obligation be stronger on grown, than younger children: for who can think the command, Children obey your parents, requires in a man, that has children of his own, the same submission to his father, as it does in his yet young children to him; and that by this precept he were bound to obey all his father's commands, if, out of a conceit of authority, he should have the indiscretion to treat him still as a boy? (Second Treatise of Government)

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Hartfield will only put her out of conceit with all the other places she belongs to.

Whatever Zaphod's qualities of mind might include - dash, bravado, conceit - he was mechanically inept and could easily blow the ship up with an extravagant gesture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "conceit": be blown up with conceit ♦ be out of conceit with ♦ have a fair conceit of oneself ♦ idle conceit ♦ In conceit with ♦ out of conceit with ♦ saturated with conceit ♦ To put one out of conceit with ♦ with conceit. Additional references.

Ending with "conceit": Self-conceit.

Albanian

pohim i mençur, mendjemadhësi (arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, presumption), mendim (brainchild, cogitation, conception, estimation, idea, judgement, judgment, meditation, mind, muse, notion, opinion, reflection, reflexion, say, self-communion, sentiment, spirit, thinking, thought). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فكرة (concept, conception, idea, impression, motif, notion, opinion, outline, think, thought, view), ‏غرور (arrogance, bighead, delusion, ego, egoism, egotism, pretension, pride, sufficiency, vanity), ‏خيال (fantasy, fiction, ghost, illusion, imagination, phantasy, shade, shadow, shape, silhouette, spectrum, spook, wraith). (various references)

Bulgarian 

странно хрумване, самонадеяност (assumption, presumption, self sufficiency), самомнение (egotism, importance, self esteem, self-conceit, self-importance, vanity). (various references)

Czech

sebevìdomí (ego, presumption, self confidence), nafoukanost, ješitnost (self esteem, vanity), domýšlivost (arrogance, cockiness, haughtiness, self-importance, uppishness). (various references)

Farsi 

غرور (Assumption, Insolence, Pride, Ruffe, Vainglory, Vanity), خودبینی (Arrogance, Assumption, Insolence, Vanity), استعاره (Metaphor, Simile). (various references)

Finnish

pöyhkeys (arrogance, haughtiness), omahyväisyys (self-satisfaction), itsepuolustusrakkaus (self-importance). (various references)

French

conception (conception), vanité, imagination, idée (concept). (various references)

German

einbildung (chestiness, illusion, imagination, presumption, vanity), Eingebildetheit. (various references)

Greek 

έπαρση (arrogance, haughtiness, overweening, overweeningness, pride, self-conceit), αλαζονεία (arrogance, haughtiness, presumption, pride, uppishness, uppity). (various references)

Hebrew 

י�"ירות (arrogance, haughtiness, pride, swagger, vainness), �"ת�'� �"רות (coquetry, showing off, strutting, titivation), �"תרברבות (boasting, haughtiness, vanity), �'אות� ות (boastfulness, disdain, haughtiness, pride, vanity), �'או�" (boastfulness, haughtiness, majesty, pride), �'א�" (arrogance, boastful, boastfulness, conceited, haughtiness, haughty, overbearing, pride, proud), ר�"ב (arrogance, boastfulness, haughtiness), רברב� ות (boastfulness, brag, pride, vainglory, vainness). (various references)

Hungarian

önteltség (arrogance, complacence, complacency, confidence, coxcombry, egotism, false pride, loftiness, perkiness, self satisfaction, self sufficiency, self-confidence, self-importance), önhittség (cock-sureness, confidence, false pride, hubris, over confidence, pretension, priggishness, self-conceit, self-importance, superciliousness), vélemény (approbation, esteem, eye, judgement, judgment, lay opinion, mind, notion, opinion, point of view, slant, tenet, thinking, verdict), szellemes hasonlat, szellemes ötlet (crack, sally, sally of wit), gőg (arrogance, haughtiness, high stomach, loftiness, perkiness, pride, proud stomach, stomach), elmés hasonlat, elmés ötlet, beképzeltség (egotism, flatulence, flatulency, self-confidence, self-importance, vainglory, vanity), ötlet (brainchild, gimmick, idea, slant, wrinkle). (various references)

Indonesian

kesombongan (arrogance, haughtiness, vanity). (various references)

Italian

vanit� (futility, pride, vanity), presunzione (confidence, overconfidence, presumption, self-conceit), idea (brainchild, idea, inspiration, intention, meaning, mind, notion, picture), boria (arrogance, haughtiness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

自� (bragging about one's own ability), 自惚れ (hubris, pretension), 自尊心 (self-respect), �"�意気 (audacious, brazen, cheeky, impertinent, saucy), 気障 (affectation, snobbery). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なまいき (audacious, brazen, cheeky, impertinent, saucy), きざ (affectation, scratch, sitting up in bed, sitting up straight, snobbery), うぬぼれ (hubris, pretension), じそ�"し�" (self-respect), じふ (affectionate father, bragging about one's own ability). (various references)

Manx

sonnaase (arrogance, indignation), corvian (egotism, self-importance, vanity). (various references)

Pig Latin

onceitcay.(various references)

Portuguese

vaidade (airs, concetto, flatulence, flatulency, presumption, pretension, pride, self-conceit, self-importance, vainglory, vanity, vaunt), presunção (airs, arrogance, assumption, assurance, concetto, coxcombry, daring, pragmatism, presumption, pretension, puppyism, self-assurance, self-conceit, self-importance, self-sufficiency, self-support, surmise, swagger, swank, vainglory, vanity), presumir (assume, avoid, conjecture, evade, presume, suppose), opinião pessoal, imaginar (conceive, concoct, contrive, deem, devise, dream, engineer, excogitate, expect, fable, fabricate, fancy, figure, guess, ideate, image, imagine, make believe, see, suppose, think, weave), imaginação (fancy, fantasy, figment, imagination, phantasy, vision), idéia (cogitation, concept, conception, contrivance, flam, general, idea, intention, meaning, mind, notion, suggestion, theory, view), agradar (delight, flatter, gratify, kittle, like, list, please, pleasure). (various references)

Romanian

vanitate (complacency, coquettishness, futility, importance, self-importance, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vanity), trufie (haughtiness, pride, superciliousness, vainglory), preţiozitate (affectation, affectedness, flatulence, flatulency), pãrere (belief, conviction, dictum, estimate, estimation, hint, idea, judgement, mind, notion, opinion, paradox, say, thinking, verdict, view, voice), idee (hint, idea, image, imagination, mind, notion, plan, project, scheme, shade, stroke, thought, view), gând (anticipation, anxiety, brains, conviction, idea, imagination, intent, recollection, scheme, thinking, thought, wish), îngâmfare (false pride, haughtiness, perkiness, presumption, pride, self-conceit, superciliousness, vainglory, vanity), încredere în sine (self sufficiency, self-reliance). (various references)

Russian 

самомнение (big head, egotism, self-conceit, self-importance, swelled head). (various references)

Scottish

cuidealas (forwardness, pertness), spaglainn (bombast), leòm (pride, vainglory). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uobraženost (coxcombry, overweening, self-assumption, self-conceit), taština (vanity). (various references)

Spanish

presunción (assumption, conjecture, pomposity, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, priggishness, self-assertion, self-importance, smugness). (various references)

Swedish

inbilskhet (bighead, vainglory), högfärd (haughtiness, pride, vainglory). (various references)

Thai

ความคิ�" (concept, conception, feeling, idea, soul, thought), คิ�" (cerebrate, conceive), จินตนาการ (envisage, fancy, feature, figure, imagination, imagine, see). (various references)

Turkish

kurum (airs, corporation, establishment, foundation, haughtiness, institute, institution, pose, shop, smut, soot, swagger, vanity), kibir (arrogance, disdain, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, importance, loftiness, pride, snootiness, vainness, vanity), kendini beğenme (arrogance, self esteem, superiority), fikir (advice, attitude, belief, cogitation, concept, conception, estimation, hint, idea, ideo-, impression, inspiration, mind, notion, opinion, position, sentiments, suggestion, thinking, think-so, thought, verdict, view, voice), düşünce (apprehension, attitude, belief, cogitation, consideration, counsel, fancy, idea, ideo-, judgement, mind, opinion, reasoning, remark, say so, sense, sentiments, thinking, thought, voice), şımarıklık (pertness, sass, sauce, sauciness, waywardness). (various references)

Turkmen 

men-menlik. (various references)

Ukrainian

химерний образ, чванливість, фантазувати, вигадувати (coin, concoct, contrive, devise, dream up, excogitate, fabricate, feign, fib, fudge, invent, make believe, mint, romance, think out), пиха (arrogance, crest, vainglory). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chán ngấy ai l� m cho ai chán ngấy cái gì, tính tự phụ (bumptiousness, chestiness, cockiness, donnishness, presumption, presumptuousness, pretentiousness, pride, self-conceit, swelled head, swollen head), tính kiêu ngạo (arrogance, assumption), lời nói dí dỏm không thích ai nữa, ý nghĩ dí dỏm. (various references)

Welsh

hunanoldeb (selfishness). (various references)

arrogantia, arrogantiam. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "conceit": conceited, conceitedly, conceitedness, conceitednesses, conceiting, conceits. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conceit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cochito, Colcemid, Conacuid, concat, concea, conceil, conceipt, conceite, concent, concete, concey, conciel, conciet, conciev, Congeith, constit, conveat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: noetic, notice.

-2 letters: cento, conic, conte, ontic, tonic.

-3 letters: cent, cine, cion, cite, coin, cone, coni, cote, etic, icon, into, nice, nite, note, once, otic, tine, tone.

-4 letters: con, cot, eon, ice, ion, net, nit, not, one, ten, tic, tie, tin, toe, ton.

-5 letters: en, et, in, it, ne, no, oe, on, ti, to.

+1 letter: acetonic, conceits, concerti, necrotic, occident, tectonic.

+2 letters: accretion, anecdotic, anorectic, cenobitic, conceited, concisest, convicted, decocting, decoction, excitonic, incorrect, niccolite, occidents, reconvict, tectonics.

+3 letters: accretions, anorectics, checkpoint, cocreating, coenacting, coenocytic, coerecting, coincident, collecting, collection, conceiting, concentric, conception, conceptive, concertina, concerting, concertini, concertino, concertize, conciliate, concoctive, concreting, concretion, concretism, concretist, concretize, conductive, confecting, confection, confiscate, conflicted, conicities, connecting, connection, connective, consociate, continence, convecting, convection, convective, cornetcies, correcting, correction, crocheting, decoctions, disconcert, disconnect, egocentric, electronic, geocentric, lactogenic, misconnect, niccolites, nonascetic, occidental, reconvicts.