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The Meaning of conceit

  • (n.) That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.
  • (n.) Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.
  • (n.) Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
  • (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.
  • (n.) An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.
  • (n.) Design; pattern.
  • (v. t.) To conceive; to imagine.
  • (v. i.) To form an idea; to think.

Synonyms

narcism , toilet table , vanity , dressing table , narcissism , self-love , amour propre , conceitedness , emptiness , dresser , egotism , self-assertion , self-confidence , self-esteem , egoism , self-conceit , self-consciousness

Antonyms

humility , humbleness , bashfulness , self-forgetfulness , unobtrusiveness , deference , modesty , shyness , unostentatiousness , diffidence , self-distrust

Rhymes

amit , athlete , backseat , beat , beet , bittersweet , bleat , bradstreet , breit , bridgette , browbeat , buckwheat , bufete , cheat , cleat , cliett , compete , complete , concrete , crabmeat , crete , deadbeat , deceit , defeat , delete , deplete , discreet , discrete , downbeat , drumbeat , eat , effete , elite , excrete , feat , feet , fleet , freet , gamete , gleet , greet , grete , heartbeat , heat , incomplete , indiscreet , jobete , keitt , kriete , lalit , lanete , leet , leete , leite , longstreet , margarete , marguerite , marquerite , meat , meet , mesquite , mete , mincemeat , mistreat , murveit , neat , neet , noncompete , obsolete , offbeat , overeat , overheat , parakeet , peat , peet , peete , pete , petite , piet , piette , pleat , puneet , quiett , receipt , repeat , replete , retreat , seat , secrete , sheet , shumeet , skeat , skeet , skeete , sleet , spreadsheet , st , street , suite , sweatt , sweet , swete , teat , teet , threatt , threet , thweatt , treat , tweet , uncomplete , unseat , upbeat , vanvliet , veit , vliet , wheat , worksheet