Definition of conceit in English:

conceit

noun kənˈsiːtkənˈsit

1mass noun Excessive pride in oneself.
自负，自高自大，骄傲自满
he was puffed up with conceit
他趾高气扬，傲慢不逊。
Example sentencesExamples
- The extent to which keeping silence could hit their vanity and conceit could not have been matched by answering their objection.
- Clark was a first-class planner and organizer of the forces under his command, but his defining characteristics were conceit and vanity.
- Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
- In what seemed to be Zachary Johnson's most vulnerable moment, he still had that aura of conceit or self confidence.
- Regrets… he has a few, but the trademark arrogance and conceit that inevitably led to clashes is still there too.
- The former attitude mollifies arrogance and conceit while the latter prevents excessive despondency, de-motivation and self-pity.
- Or perhaps I am merely guilty of arrogant conceit.
- The secret to marital bliss eludes the Western civilization, although arrogance and conceit keep it from admitting fundamental flaws and looking elsewhere for solutions.
- He looked at the miracle of his creation of the Khalsa and attributed it to the Khalsa, without pride or conceit.
- When these feelings are free from national arrogance and conceit and imperial ambitions, there is nothing wrong or objectionable about them.
- She is being reproached for conceit and arrogance, promoting expensive goods and products, which people can't afford to buy, targeting a wealthy audience.
- Too little humility - what we'd call arrogance or conceit - is easily seen as a spiritual impediment, but the opposite is also true.
- This is a first feature from documentarist Tareque Masud, autobiographical, but refreshingly without egotism or conceit.
- Or is Dennett, full of hubris and conceit, the new god?
- By 1879, his arrogance and conceit having ruined a lucrative relationship with his wealthy patron, Frederick Leyland, Whistler's fortunes were at an all-time low.
- Although undoubtedly he made many enemies through a combination of conceit, arrogance and a quick temper, Bankes was an important early figure in Nubian and Near Eastern archaeology, and the nascent study of Egyptology.
- It is clear from his arrogance and boundless conceit that he has never faced a serious opposition from the working class.
- ‘You are an unlovely mixture of conceit and arrogance,’ one South African MP told another in 1969.
- Smugness, conceit, an arrogance which has the appearance of humility… here I can no longer reserve my hatred for these impotent writers.
- Such successes sometimes induce a spirit of conceit and vanity… people not infrequently become intoxicated by this kind of success…
Synonyms
vanity, narcissism, conceitedness, self-love, self-admiration, self-adulation, self-regard, egotism, egoism, egocentricity, egomania
pride, arrogance, hubris, boastfulness, cockiness, self-importance, immodesty
self-satisfaction, smugness, complacency
French amour propre
informal big-headedness, swollen-headedness, uppishness, uppitiness
literary vainglory
2An ingenious or fanciful comparison or metaphor.
the idea of the wind's singing is a prime romantic conceit
风在歌唱这个意念是一种富于浪漫色彩的绝妙比喻。
Example sentencesExamples
- He is as adept in the conceits of metaphysical poetry as he is in the tones and tunes of seventeenth-century verse; the strings upon which he strums are held taut by centuries.
- Those are very difficult paths to walk, to be up front about taking that stuff seriously, and not just using it as a trope or a conceit.
- Sep did not, however, enact as noticeable a development as Donne, whose early ‘Songs and Sonnets’ are amorous works heavily using metaphysical conceit.
- The central metaphor, or conceit, or daring insight of Nicholas Ostler's study is that languages deserve to be treated as subjects, agents, in their own right.
- The image of Coe as an egg-laying bird is a gratuitous conceit which can hardly be said to represent the man; it uses him as the occasion for the image of the bird with his minute eggs.
- The work of David Freedberg and Cell suggests that the animation implied here is something more than a metaphoric conceit.
- Smith transforms Petrarch's conceit into an expansive metaphor for the Elegiac Sonnets and the way their poet mimics the nightingale's mournful song throughout.
- Like Pale Fire, Lolita begins with an immoderate conceit that allows its author and reader to explore the extravagant, pleasurable, and disturbing fringes of the language.
- She falls into wordy explication and overly signalled conceits.
- His metaphor crosses sight and sound and locates an Australian event within the larger regional theatre, a remarkable conceit.
- In this metaphysical conceit Thoreau reads India as a timeless place, defined by its sacred books.
- The collage elements intricately play off the metaphoric conceits or evocative turns of phrase of the elaborately lettered texts.
- It was the most blasphemous, the most rageful, the funniest, the most American of all conceits for a novel.
- In addition to its scholarly role, translation acted as a method of training for hopeful poets, and as a mine of conceits for the more experienced writer.
- In the West we know her as a poet of witty conceits and memorable images.
- To do so, she explores the idea of metaphoricity, transforming conceits into self-reflexive, self-questioning, and ultimately self-effacing representation.
- The extravagant conceits of ‘The Weeper’, addressed to Mary Magdalen, were much ridiculed in subsequent periods.
- The really metaphysical poem-i.e. something of use Here, of use Now as soul-making and soul-moving-concerns neither objects nor conceits.
- Vividly described are some pictures centrally important for Renaissance conceits such as the proximity of pleasure and the pox.
- This poem takes the conceit of a shared video library membership card as emblematic of relationship cohesion and breakdown in a gesture that is almost joking.
Synonyms
image, imagery, figurative expression, metaphor, simile, trope, figure of speech
play on words, pun, quip, witticism
1. 2.1 An artistic effect or device.
  艺术效果；艺术性的计划（或设计）；精美图案
  the director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale in black and white
  导演把这个传说拍摄成黑白电影的计划很巧妙。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Shadow of the Vampire is a fictionalization of a true event, taking off from a brilliant conceit, that the director of a vampire film would hire a real vampire to play the leading role.
  It's a brilliant conceit, using its very unreality to replicate with chilling precision the fear and vulnerability of a situation in which none of us ever want to find ourselves.
  That's the conceit of filmmaker Jeffrey Blitz, who set out with digital video camera in hand to document the 1999 U.S. National Spelling Bee championship.
  Designing architecture with the conceit of engendering community as a predominant concern is refreshing in its conceptual distance from profit motive.
  As a result, artists are constructing elaborate conceits to make what they produce fit into the category of a print.
  Until I met him, I assumed that this nautical way of walking was extinct, or a conceit of literature.
  Above all, one feels that this is not a film about life, but a film about life filtered through certain cultural references and conceits.
  This device is the least successful of the show's many conceits, but even then, the talented cast and the director's assured grip keep us enthralled.
  It's a brilliant conceit, and for the most part works wonderfully.
  Guarino has plenty of other ideas just as bad, so many, in fact, that the singers are too occupied with directorial conceits to perform the operas that Mascagni and Leoncavallo actually wrote.
  It was also about a Hellenistic conceit revisited by artists, critics, theorists, and poets during the middle decades of the cinquecento.
  The placement of the monitors in relation to the doors as well as a slit cut in a wall through which one can see another video projection, cues you into the sculptural conceits within the installation.
  And all the while, as you're occupied with these little conceits, the film's geologic strata are shifting into place.
  The film was faithful to the series we grew up with but worked well with the playful conceit that the film was itself about a remake of the tv show.
  Another fact that could almost be a conceit in his own fiction is that Self's name is ‘semantically camouflaged’ as far as the internet is concerned.
  Thus we are offered arguments resting on the notion that language simply is a material substance, as Smithson liked to say, or on the idea that time is a crystalline deposit, as another of the artist's conceits has it.
  The sense that the models are crushed or dehumanized by their work and the photographer's art is the conceit of some of the best photographs.
  Whereas Mangan's work is an echo of some pretty familiar sculptural conceits, Painting Machine seems to come from a place that's a little more contemporary.
  Of the female architects I've known, none in my experience exhibit the same conceits as the male architects.
  No, that's an art-historical conceit - a narrative device.
2. 2.2 A fanciful notion.
  幻想；奇想
  he is alarmed by the widespread conceit that he spent most of the 1980s drunk
  关于他20世纪80年代的大部分时光都是喝得醉醺醺的这种广为流传的离奇说法使他警觉起来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Western rationality and pride in democracy can seem an intolerable, parochial conceit to those whose lives have been so violently disturbed.
  What if IBM hadn't grown so damn big and hadn't developed such a massively complacent conceit of itself and its achievements?
  Now it is as though the erosion of place has gone so far that exile is a hopeless conceit; if all places are interchangeable, with a McDonald's on every corner, there is no margin left to haunt.
  The search for knowledge and in particular self-knowledge that started in my journey with Oedipus, is not only illusory, it is also a conceit, perhaps also a male conceit.
  Some conceits concerning Scottish education are exactly that, but there has been a long-standing tradition of higher rates of participation at university which dates back to medieval times.
  ALTHOUGH IT IS an old idea, the conceit that faith can maintain its hold on the imagination only as long as there are blinkers on human vision still has considerable appeal.
  Indeed, the boy known for ‘always thinking ahead’ could never utter the final sentence in the passage-unless he willfully yielded to the seductions of his father's self-indulgent conceits.
  Each one was a girl of fair common-sense, and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or dress herself up, or give herself airs, in the idea of outshining the others.
  Here the label - Occidentalist - appears to be less an idea than a conceit.
  This may be a romantic conceit, but it has been my understanding that some of the patterns knitted into traditional Aran wool sweaters were magical designs, meant to help protect the wearers while fishing.
  This reinvent-the-wheel attitude is a conceit common to all great social and political movements.
  I confess [he tells Jenny] I recollect some passages relating to that Summer, which formerly gave me a conceit that my sister had some liking to him.
  Hamer pushes this conceit further, but not that much further, and imagines the Swedes persuading their neighbours Norway to participate in a study of single men's kitchen lives, on account of their statistical surplus of such males.
  It is through his attempt to get Givens to confess to his trickery that the narrator comes to realize the conceits he has constructed about himself.
  The Rorschach inkblot conceit used for the catalogue was, like the ‘Lost Formats’ issue of Emigre, so overstated and dominant that it crushed the content.
  No writer could pen a single word but for the rich humus of public domain effort with which we garden our notions and conceits.
  In the end the very idea of ‘The Future’ may turn out to be a 20th century conceit, the reason the globe churned itself up fighting one rancid conception of Utopia after the other.
  And yet, there is a suggestive promise that the conceit, if rightly understood, offers something more, perhaps something less bleak.
  There was much to the conceit but it never gained widespread acceptance and the events leading to 1947 and independence always took precedence over what had happened 90 years earlier.
  Synonyms
  idea, notion, fancy
  archaic reverie

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'notion', also 'quaintly decorative article'): from conceive, on the pattern of pairs such as deceive, deceit.

Rhymes

accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat

Definition of conceit in US English:

conceit

nounkənˈsitkənˈsēt

1Excessive pride in oneself.
自负，自高自大，骄傲自满
he was puffed up with conceit
他趾高气扬，傲慢不逊。
Example sentencesExamples
- In what seemed to be Zachary Johnson's most vulnerable moment, he still had that aura of conceit or self confidence.
- The former attitude mollifies arrogance and conceit while the latter prevents excessive despondency, de-motivation and self-pity.
- Or perhaps I am merely guilty of arrogant conceit.
- The secret to marital bliss eludes the Western civilization, although arrogance and conceit keep it from admitting fundamental flaws and looking elsewhere for solutions.
- By 1879, his arrogance and conceit having ruined a lucrative relationship with his wealthy patron, Frederick Leyland, Whistler's fortunes were at an all-time low.
- He looked at the miracle of his creation of the Khalsa and attributed it to the Khalsa, without pride or conceit.
- It is clear from his arrogance and boundless conceit that he has never faced a serious opposition from the working class.
- Such successes sometimes induce a spirit of conceit and vanity… people not infrequently become intoxicated by this kind of success…
- When these feelings are free from national arrogance and conceit and imperial ambitions, there is nothing wrong or objectionable about them.
- Too little humility - what we'd call arrogance or conceit - is easily seen as a spiritual impediment, but the opposite is also true.
- ‘You are an unlovely mixture of conceit and arrogance,’ one South African MP told another in 1969.
- This is a first feature from documentarist Tareque Masud, autobiographical, but refreshingly without egotism or conceit.
- She is being reproached for conceit and arrogance, promoting expensive goods and products, which people can't afford to buy, targeting a wealthy audience.
- Regrets… he has a few, but the trademark arrogance and conceit that inevitably led to clashes is still there too.
- Smugness, conceit, an arrogance which has the appearance of humility… here I can no longer reserve my hatred for these impotent writers.
- The extent to which keeping silence could hit their vanity and conceit could not have been matched by answering their objection.
- Although undoubtedly he made many enemies through a combination of conceit, arrogance and a quick temper, Bankes was an important early figure in Nubian and Near Eastern archaeology, and the nascent study of Egyptology.
- Clark was a first-class planner and organizer of the forces under his command, but his defining characteristics were conceit and vanity.
- Or is Dennett, full of hubris and conceit, the new god?
- Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
Synonyms
vanity, narcissism, conceitedness, self-love, self-admiration, self-adulation, self-regard, egotism, egoism, egocentricity, egomania
2A fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor.
别出心裁（或机智离奇）的措辞；精心的比喻
the idea of the wind's singing is a prime romantic conceit
风在歌唱这个意念是一种富于浪漫色彩的绝妙比喻。
Example sentencesExamples
- His metaphor crosses sight and sound and locates an Australian event within the larger regional theatre, a remarkable conceit.
- The work of David Freedberg and Cell suggests that the animation implied here is something more than a metaphoric conceit.
- In the West we know her as a poet of witty conceits and memorable images.
- Like Pale Fire, Lolita begins with an immoderate conceit that allows its author and reader to explore the extravagant, pleasurable, and disturbing fringes of the language.
- The extravagant conceits of ‘The Weeper’, addressed to Mary Magdalen, were much ridiculed in subsequent periods.
- He is as adept in the conceits of metaphysical poetry as he is in the tones and tunes of seventeenth-century verse; the strings upon which he strums are held taut by centuries.
- Those are very difficult paths to walk, to be up front about taking that stuff seriously, and not just using it as a trope or a conceit.
- The collage elements intricately play off the metaphoric conceits or evocative turns of phrase of the elaborately lettered texts.
- In addition to its scholarly role, translation acted as a method of training for hopeful poets, and as a mine of conceits for the more experienced writer.
- It was the most blasphemous, the most rageful, the funniest, the most American of all conceits for a novel.
- The really metaphysical poem-i.e. something of use Here, of use Now as soul-making and soul-moving-concerns neither objects nor conceits.
- Vividly described are some pictures centrally important for Renaissance conceits such as the proximity of pleasure and the pox.
- The image of Coe as an egg-laying bird is a gratuitous conceit which can hardly be said to represent the man; it uses him as the occasion for the image of the bird with his minute eggs.
- To do so, she explores the idea of metaphoricity, transforming conceits into self-reflexive, self-questioning, and ultimately self-effacing representation.
- This poem takes the conceit of a shared video library membership card as emblematic of relationship cohesion and breakdown in a gesture that is almost joking.
- Smith transforms Petrarch's conceit into an expansive metaphor for the Elegiac Sonnets and the way their poet mimics the nightingale's mournful song throughout.
- The central metaphor, or conceit, or daring insight of Nicholas Ostler's study is that languages deserve to be treated as subjects, agents, in their own right.
- She falls into wordy explication and overly signalled conceits.
- Sep did not, however, enact as noticeable a development as Donne, whose early ‘Songs and Sonnets’ are amorous works heavily using metaphysical conceit.
- In this metaphysical conceit Thoreau reads India as a timeless place, defined by its sacred books.
Synonyms
image, imagery, figurative expression, metaphor, simile, trope, figure of speech
1. 2.1 An artistic effect or device.
  艺术效果；艺术性的计划（或设计）；精美图案
  the director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale in black and white
  导演把这个传说拍摄成黑白电影的计划很巧妙。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thus we are offered arguments resting on the notion that language simply is a material substance, as Smithson liked to say, or on the idea that time is a crystalline deposit, as another of the artist's conceits has it.
  As a result, artists are constructing elaborate conceits to make what they produce fit into the category of a print.
  That's the conceit of filmmaker Jeffrey Blitz, who set out with digital video camera in hand to document the 1999 U.S. National Spelling Bee championship.
  The placement of the monitors in relation to the doors as well as a slit cut in a wall through which one can see another video projection, cues you into the sculptural conceits within the installation.
  Whereas Mangan's work is an echo of some pretty familiar sculptural conceits, Painting Machine seems to come from a place that's a little more contemporary.
  Another fact that could almost be a conceit in his own fiction is that Self's name is ‘semantically camouflaged’ as far as the internet is concerned.
  The film was faithful to the series we grew up with but worked well with the playful conceit that the film was itself about a remake of the tv show.
  Guarino has plenty of other ideas just as bad, so many, in fact, that the singers are too occupied with directorial conceits to perform the operas that Mascagni and Leoncavallo actually wrote.
  Until I met him, I assumed that this nautical way of walking was extinct, or a conceit of literature.
  This device is the least successful of the show's many conceits, but even then, the talented cast and the director's assured grip keep us enthralled.
  Above all, one feels that this is not a film about life, but a film about life filtered through certain cultural references and conceits.
  No, that's an art-historical conceit - a narrative device.
  The sense that the models are crushed or dehumanized by their work and the photographer's art is the conceit of some of the best photographs.
  It was also about a Hellenistic conceit revisited by artists, critics, theorists, and poets during the middle decades of the cinquecento.
  It's a brilliant conceit, using its very unreality to replicate with chilling precision the fear and vulnerability of a situation in which none of us ever want to find ourselves.
  Designing architecture with the conceit of engendering community as a predominant concern is refreshing in its conceptual distance from profit motive.
  It's a brilliant conceit, and for the most part works wonderfully.
  Shadow of the Vampire is a fictionalization of a true event, taking off from a brilliant conceit, that the director of a vampire film would hire a real vampire to play the leading role.
  Of the female architects I've known, none in my experience exhibit the same conceits as the male architects.
  And all the while, as you're occupied with these little conceits, the film's geologic strata are shifting into place.
2. 2.2 A fanciful notion.
  幻想；奇想
  he is alarmed by the widespread conceit that he spent most of the 1980s drunk
  关于他20世纪80年代的大部分时光都是喝得醉醺醺的这种广为流传的离奇说法使他警觉起来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now it is as though the erosion of place has gone so far that exile is a hopeless conceit; if all places are interchangeable, with a McDonald's on every corner, there is no margin left to haunt.
  In the end the very idea of ‘The Future’ may turn out to be a 20th century conceit, the reason the globe churned itself up fighting one rancid conception of Utopia after the other.
  What if IBM hadn't grown so damn big and hadn't developed such a massively complacent conceit of itself and its achievements?
  ALTHOUGH IT IS an old idea, the conceit that faith can maintain its hold on the imagination only as long as there are blinkers on human vision still has considerable appeal.
  Each one was a girl of fair common-sense, and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or dress herself up, or give herself airs, in the idea of outshining the others.
  The search for knowledge and in particular self-knowledge that started in my journey with Oedipus, is not only illusory, it is also a conceit, perhaps also a male conceit.
  Some conceits concerning Scottish education are exactly that, but there has been a long-standing tradition of higher rates of participation at university which dates back to medieval times.
  Hamer pushes this conceit further, but not that much further, and imagines the Swedes persuading their neighbours Norway to participate in a study of single men's kitchen lives, on account of their statistical surplus of such males.
  Western rationality and pride in democracy can seem an intolerable, parochial conceit to those whose lives have been so violently disturbed.
  Indeed, the boy known for ‘always thinking ahead’ could never utter the final sentence in the passage-unless he willfully yielded to the seductions of his father's self-indulgent conceits.
  It is through his attempt to get Givens to confess to his trickery that the narrator comes to realize the conceits he has constructed about himself.
  No writer could pen a single word but for the rich humus of public domain effort with which we garden our notions and conceits.
  Here the label - Occidentalist - appears to be less an idea than a conceit.
  There was much to the conceit but it never gained widespread acceptance and the events leading to 1947 and independence always took precedence over what had happened 90 years earlier.
  The Rorschach inkblot conceit used for the catalogue was, like the ‘Lost Formats’ issue of Emigre, so overstated and dominant that it crushed the content.
  This reinvent-the-wheel attitude is a conceit common to all great social and political movements.
  I confess [he tells Jenny] I recollect some passages relating to that Summer, which formerly gave me a conceit that my sister had some liking to him.
  And yet, there is a suggestive promise that the conceit, if rightly understood, offers something more, perhaps something less bleak.
  This may be a romantic conceit, but it has been my understanding that some of the patterns knitted into traditional Aran wool sweaters were magical designs, meant to help protect the wearers while fishing.
  Synonyms
  idea, notion, fancy

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘notion’, also ‘quaintly decorative article’): from conceive, on the pattern of pairs such as deceive, deceit.

词汇	conceit
释义	Definition of conceit in English: conceit noun kənˈsiːtkənˈsit 1mass noun Excessive pride in oneself. 自负，自高自大，骄傲自满 he was puffed up with conceit 他趾高气扬，傲慢不逊。 Example sentencesExamples The extent to which keeping silence could hit their vanity and conceit could not have been matched by answering their objection. Clark was a first-class planner and organizer of the forces under his command, but his defining characteristics were conceit and vanity. Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. In what seemed to be Zachary Johnson's most vulnerable moment, he still had that aura of conceit or self confidence. Regrets… he has a few, but the trademark arrogance and conceit that inevitably led to clashes is still there too. The former attitude mollifies arrogance and conceit while the latter prevents excessive despondency, de-motivation and self-pity. Or perhaps I am merely guilty of arrogant conceit. The secret to marital bliss eludes the Western civilization, although arrogance and conceit keep it from admitting fundamental flaws and looking elsewhere for solutions. He looked at the miracle of his creation of the Khalsa and attributed it to the Khalsa, without pride or conceit. When these feelings are free from national arrogance and conceit and imperial ambitions, there is nothing wrong or objectionable about them. She is being reproached for conceit and arrogance, promoting expensive goods and products, which people can't afford to buy, targeting a wealthy audience. Too little humility - what we'd call arrogance or conceit - is easily seen as a spiritual impediment, but the opposite is also true. This is a first feature from documentarist Tareque Masud, autobiographical, but refreshingly without egotism or conceit. Or is Dennett, full of hubris and conceit, the new god? By 1879, his arrogance and conceit having ruined a lucrative relationship with his wealthy patron, Frederick Leyland, Whistler's fortunes were at an all-time low. Although undoubtedly he made many enemies through a combination of conceit, arrogance and a quick temper, Bankes was an important early figure in Nubian and Near Eastern archaeology, and the nascent study of Egyptology. It is clear from his arrogance and boundless conceit that he has never faced a serious opposition from the working class. ‘You are an unlovely mixture of conceit and arrogance,’ one South African MP told another in 1969. Smugness, conceit, an arrogance which has the appearance of humility… here I can no longer reserve my hatred for these impotent writers. Such successes sometimes induce a spirit of conceit and vanity… people not infrequently become intoxicated by this kind of success… Synonyms vanity, narcissism, conceitedness, self-love, self-admiration, self-adulation, self-regard, egotism, egoism, egocentricity, egomania pride, arrogance, hubris, boastfulness, cockiness, self-importance, immodesty self-satisfaction, smugness, complacency French amour propre informal big-headedness, swollen-headedness, uppishness, uppitiness literary vainglory 2An ingenious or fanciful comparison or metaphor. the idea of the wind's singing is a prime romantic conceit 风在歌唱这个意念是一种富于浪漫色彩的绝妙比喻。 Example sentencesExamples He is as adept in the conceits of metaphysical poetry as he is in the tones and tunes of seventeenth-century verse; the strings upon which he strums are held taut by centuries. Those are very difficult paths to walk, to be up front about taking that stuff seriously, and not just using it as a trope or a conceit. Sep did not, however, enact as noticeable a development as Donne, whose early ‘Songs and Sonnets’ are amorous works heavily using metaphysical conceit. The central metaphor, or conceit, or daring insight of Nicholas Ostler's study is that languages deserve to be treated as subjects, agents, in their own right. The image of Coe as an egg-laying bird is a gratuitous conceit which can hardly be said to represent the man; it uses him as the occasion for the image of the bird with his minute eggs. The work of David Freedberg and Cell suggests that the animation implied here is something more than a metaphoric conceit. Smith transforms Petrarch's conceit into an expansive metaphor for the Elegiac Sonnets and the way their poet mimics the nightingale's mournful song throughout. Like Pale Fire, Lolita begins with an immoderate conceit that allows its author and reader to explore the extravagant, pleasurable, and disturbing fringes of the language. She falls into wordy explication and overly signalled conceits. His metaphor crosses sight and sound and locates an Australian event within the larger regional theatre, a remarkable conceit. In this metaphysical conceit Thoreau reads India as a timeless place, defined by its sacred books. The collage elements intricately play off the metaphoric conceits or evocative turns of phrase of the elaborately lettered texts. It was the most blasphemous, the most rageful, the funniest, the most American of all conceits for a novel. In addition to its scholarly role, translation acted as a method of training for hopeful poets, and as a mine of conceits for the more experienced writer. In the West we know her as a poet of witty conceits and memorable images. To do so, she explores the idea of metaphoricity, transforming conceits into self-reflexive, self-questioning, and ultimately self-effacing representation. The extravagant conceits of ‘The Weeper’, addressed to Mary Magdalen, were much ridiculed in subsequent periods. The really metaphysical poem-i.e. something of use Here, of use Now as soul-making and soul-moving-concerns neither objects nor conceits. Vividly described are some pictures centrally important for Renaissance conceits such as the proximity of pleasure and the pox. This poem takes the conceit of a shared video library membership card as emblematic of relationship cohesion and breakdown in a gesture that is almost joking. Synonyms image, imagery, figurative expression, metaphor, simile, trope, figure of speech play on words, pun, quip, witticism 2.1 An artistic effect or device. 艺术效果；艺术性的计划（或设计）；精美图案 the director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale in black and white 导演把这个传说拍摄成黑白电影的计划很巧妙。 Example sentencesExamples Shadow of the Vampire is a fictionalization of a true event, taking off from a brilliant conceit, that the director of a vampire film would hire a real vampire to play the leading role. It's a brilliant conceit, using its very unreality to replicate with chilling precision the fear and vulnerability of a situation in which none of us ever want to find ourselves. That's the conceit of filmmaker Jeffrey Blitz, who set out with digital video camera in hand to document the 1999 U.S. National Spelling Bee championship. Designing architecture with the conceit of engendering community as a predominant concern is refreshing in its conceptual distance from profit motive. As a result, artists are constructing elaborate conceits to make what they produce fit into the category of a print. Until I met him, I assumed that this nautical way of walking was extinct, or a conceit of literature. Above all, one feels that this is not a film about life, but a film about life filtered through certain cultural references and conceits. This device is the least successful of the show's many conceits, but even then, the talented cast and the director's assured grip keep us enthralled. It's a brilliant conceit, and for the most part works wonderfully. Guarino has plenty of other ideas just as bad, so many, in fact, that the singers are too occupied with directorial conceits to perform the operas that Mascagni and Leoncavallo actually wrote. It was also about a Hellenistic conceit revisited by artists, critics, theorists, and poets during the middle decades of the cinquecento. The placement of the monitors in relation to the doors as well as a slit cut in a wall through which one can see another video projection, cues you into the sculptural conceits within the installation. And all the while, as you're occupied with these little conceits, the film's geologic strata are shifting into place. The film was faithful to the series we grew up with but worked well with the playful conceit that the film was itself about a remake of the tv show. Another fact that could almost be a conceit in his own fiction is that Self's name is ‘semantically camouflaged’ as far as the internet is concerned. Thus we are offered arguments resting on the notion that language simply is a material substance, as Smithson liked to say, or on the idea that time is a crystalline deposit, as another of the artist's conceits has it. The sense that the models are crushed or dehumanized by their work and the photographer's art is the conceit of some of the best photographs. Whereas Mangan's work is an echo of some pretty familiar sculptural conceits, Painting Machine seems to come from a place that's a little more contemporary. Of the female architects I've known, none in my experience exhibit the same conceits as the male architects. No, that's an art-historical conceit - a narrative device. 2.2 A fanciful notion. 幻想；奇想 he is alarmed by the widespread conceit that he spent most of the 1980s drunk 关于他20世纪80年代的大部分时光都是喝得醉醺醺的这种广为流传的离奇说法使他警觉起来。 Example sentencesExamples Western rationality and pride in democracy can seem an intolerable, parochial conceit to those whose lives have been so violently disturbed. What if IBM hadn't grown so damn big and hadn't developed such a massively complacent conceit of itself and its achievements? Now it is as though the erosion of place has gone so far that exile is a hopeless conceit; if all places are interchangeable, with a McDonald's on every corner, there is no margin left to haunt. The search for knowledge and in particular self-knowledge that started in my journey with Oedipus, is not only illusory, it is also a conceit, perhaps also a male conceit. Some conceits concerning Scottish education are exactly that, but there has been a long-standing tradition of higher rates of participation at university which dates back to medieval times. ALTHOUGH IT IS an old idea, the conceit that faith can maintain its hold on the imagination only as long as there are blinkers on human vision still has considerable appeal. Indeed, the boy known for ‘always thinking ahead’ could never utter the final sentence in the passage-unless he willfully yielded to the seductions of his father's self-indulgent conceits. Each one was a girl of fair common-sense, and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or dress herself up, or give herself airs, in the idea of outshining the others. Here the label - Occidentalist - appears to be less an idea than a conceit. This may be a romantic conceit, but it has been my understanding that some of the patterns knitted into traditional Aran wool sweaters were magical designs, meant to help protect the wearers while fishing. This reinvent-the-wheel attitude is a conceit common to all great social and political movements. I confess [he tells Jenny] I recollect some passages relating to that Summer, which formerly gave me a conceit that my sister had some liking to him. Hamer pushes this conceit further, but not that much further, and imagines the Swedes persuading their neighbours Norway to participate in a study of single men's kitchen lives, on account of their statistical surplus of such males. It is through his attempt to get Givens to confess to his trickery that the narrator comes to realize the conceits he has constructed about himself. The Rorschach inkblot conceit used for the catalogue was, like the ‘Lost Formats’ issue of Emigre, so overstated and dominant that it crushed the content. No writer could pen a single word but for the rich humus of public domain effort with which we garden our notions and conceits. In the end the very idea of ‘The Future’ may turn out to be a 20th century conceit, the reason the globe churned itself up fighting one rancid conception of Utopia after the other. And yet, there is a suggestive promise that the conceit, if rightly understood, offers something more, perhaps something less bleak. There was much to the conceit but it never gained widespread acceptance and the events leading to 1947 and independence always took precedence over what had happened 90 years earlier. Synonyms idea, notion, fancy archaic reverie Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'notion', also 'quaintly decorative article'): from conceive, on the pattern of pairs such as deceive, deceit. Rhymes accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat Definition of conceit in US English: conceit nounkənˈsitkənˈsēt 1Excessive pride in oneself. 自负，自高自大，骄傲自满 he was puffed up with conceit 他趾高气扬，傲慢不逊。 Example sentencesExamples In what seemed to be Zachary Johnson's most vulnerable moment, he still had that aura of conceit or self confidence. The former attitude mollifies arrogance and conceit while the latter prevents excessive despondency, de-motivation and self-pity. Or perhaps I am merely guilty of arrogant conceit. The secret to marital bliss eludes the Western civilization, although arrogance and conceit keep it from admitting fundamental flaws and looking elsewhere for solutions. By 1879, his arrogance and conceit having ruined a lucrative relationship with his wealthy patron, Frederick Leyland, Whistler's fortunes were at an all-time low. He looked at the miracle of his creation of the Khalsa and attributed it to the Khalsa, without pride or conceit. It is clear from his arrogance and boundless conceit that he has never faced a serious opposition from the working class. Such successes sometimes induce a spirit of conceit and vanity… people not infrequently become intoxicated by this kind of success… When these feelings are free from national arrogance and conceit and imperial ambitions, there is nothing wrong or objectionable about them. Too little humility - what we'd call arrogance or conceit - is easily seen as a spiritual impediment, but the opposite is also true. ‘You are an unlovely mixture of conceit and arrogance,’ one South African MP told another in 1969. This is a first feature from documentarist Tareque Masud, autobiographical, but refreshingly without egotism or conceit. She is being reproached for conceit and arrogance, promoting expensive goods and products, which people can't afford to buy, targeting a wealthy audience. Regrets… he has a few, but the trademark arrogance and conceit that inevitably led to clashes is still there too. Smugness, conceit, an arrogance which has the appearance of humility… here I can no longer reserve my hatred for these impotent writers. The extent to which keeping silence could hit their vanity and conceit could not have been matched by answering their objection. Although undoubtedly he made many enemies through a combination of conceit, arrogance and a quick temper, Bankes was an important early figure in Nubian and Near Eastern archaeology, and the nascent study of Egyptology. Clark was a first-class planner and organizer of the forces under his command, but his defining characteristics were conceit and vanity. Or is Dennett, full of hubris and conceit, the new god? Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Synonyms vanity, narcissism, conceitedness, self-love, self-admiration, self-adulation, self-regard, egotism, egoism, egocentricity, egomania 2A fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor. 别出心裁（或机智离奇）的措辞；精心的比喻 the idea of the wind's singing is a prime romantic conceit 风在歌唱这个意念是一种富于浪漫色彩的绝妙比喻。 Example sentencesExamples His metaphor crosses sight and sound and locates an Australian event within the larger regional theatre, a remarkable conceit. The work of David Freedberg and Cell suggests that the animation implied here is something more than a metaphoric conceit. In the West we know her as a poet of witty conceits and memorable images. Like Pale Fire, Lolita begins with an immoderate conceit that allows its author and reader to explore the extravagant, pleasurable, and disturbing fringes of the language. The extravagant conceits of ‘The Weeper’, addressed to Mary Magdalen, were much ridiculed in subsequent periods. He is as adept in the conceits of metaphysical poetry as he is in the tones and tunes of seventeenth-century verse; the strings upon which he strums are held taut by centuries. Those are very difficult paths to walk, to be up front about taking that stuff seriously, and not just using it as a trope or a conceit. The collage elements intricately play off the metaphoric conceits or evocative turns of phrase of the elaborately lettered texts. In addition to its scholarly role, translation acted as a method of training for hopeful poets, and as a mine of conceits for the more experienced writer. It was the most blasphemous, the most rageful, the funniest, the most American of all conceits for a novel. The really metaphysical poem-i.e. something of use Here, of use Now as soul-making and soul-moving-concerns neither objects nor conceits. Vividly described are some pictures centrally important for Renaissance conceits such as the proximity of pleasure and the pox. The image of Coe as an egg-laying bird is a gratuitous conceit which can hardly be said to represent the man; it uses him as the occasion for the image of the bird with his minute eggs. To do so, she explores the idea of metaphoricity, transforming conceits into self-reflexive, self-questioning, and ultimately self-effacing representation. This poem takes the conceit of a shared video library membership card as emblematic of relationship cohesion and breakdown in a gesture that is almost joking. Smith transforms Petrarch's conceit into an expansive metaphor for the Elegiac Sonnets and the way their poet mimics the nightingale's mournful song throughout. The central metaphor, or conceit, or daring insight of Nicholas Ostler's study is that languages deserve to be treated as subjects, agents, in their own right. She falls into wordy explication and overly signalled conceits. Sep did not, however, enact as noticeable a development as Donne, whose early ‘Songs and Sonnets’ are amorous works heavily using metaphysical conceit. In this metaphysical conceit Thoreau reads India as a timeless place, defined by its sacred books. Synonyms image, imagery, figurative expression, metaphor, simile, trope, figure of speech 2.1 An artistic effect or device. 艺术效果；艺术性的计划（或设计）；精美图案 the director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale in black and white 导演把这个传说拍摄成黑白电影的计划很巧妙。 Example sentencesExamples Thus we are offered arguments resting on the notion that language simply is a material substance, as Smithson liked to say, or on the idea that time is a crystalline deposit, as another of the artist's conceits has it. As a result, artists are constructing elaborate conceits to make what they produce fit into the category of a print. That's the conceit of filmmaker Jeffrey Blitz, who set out with digital video camera in hand to document the 1999 U.S. National Spelling Bee championship. The placement of the monitors in relation to the doors as well as a slit cut in a wall through which one can see another video projection, cues you into the sculptural conceits within the installation. Whereas Mangan's work is an echo of some pretty familiar sculptural conceits, Painting Machine seems to come from a place that's a little more contemporary. Another fact that could almost be a conceit in his own fiction is that Self's name is ‘semantically camouflaged’ as far as the internet is concerned. The film was faithful to the series we grew up with but worked well with the playful conceit that the film was itself about a remake of the tv show. Guarino has plenty of other ideas just as bad, so many, in fact, that the singers are too occupied with directorial conceits to perform the operas that Mascagni and Leoncavallo actually wrote. Until I met him, I assumed that this nautical way of walking was extinct, or a conceit of literature. This device is the least successful of the show's many conceits, but even then, the talented cast and the director's assured grip keep us enthralled. Above all, one feels that this is not a film about life, but a film about life filtered through certain cultural references and conceits. No, that's an art-historical conceit - a narrative device. The sense that the models are crushed or dehumanized by their work and the photographer's art is the conceit of some of the best photographs. It was also about a Hellenistic conceit revisited by artists, critics, theorists, and poets during the middle decades of the cinquecento. It's a brilliant conceit, using its very unreality to replicate with chilling precision the fear and vulnerability of a situation in which none of us ever want to find ourselves. Designing architecture with the conceit of engendering community as a predominant concern is refreshing in its conceptual distance from profit motive. It's a brilliant conceit, and for the most part works wonderfully. Shadow of the Vampire is a fictionalization of a true event, taking off from a brilliant conceit, that the director of a vampire film would hire a real vampire to play the leading role. Of the female architects I've known, none in my experience exhibit the same conceits as the male architects. And all the while, as you're occupied with these little conceits, the film's geologic strata are shifting into place. 2.2 A fanciful notion. 幻想；奇想 he is alarmed by the widespread conceit that he spent most of the 1980s drunk 关于他20世纪80年代的大部分时光都是喝得醉醺醺的这种广为流传的离奇说法使他警觉起来。 Example sentencesExamples Now it is as though the erosion of place has gone so far that exile is a hopeless conceit; if all places are interchangeable, with a McDonald's on every corner, there is no margin left to haunt. In the end the very idea of ‘The Future’ may turn out to be a 20th century conceit, the reason the globe churned itself up fighting one rancid conception of Utopia after the other. What if IBM hadn't grown so damn big and hadn't developed such a massively complacent conceit of itself and its achievements? ALTHOUGH IT IS an old idea, the conceit that faith can maintain its hold on the imagination only as long as there are blinkers on human vision still has considerable appeal. Each one was a girl of fair common-sense, and she did not delude herself with any vain conceits, or dress herself up, or give herself airs, in the idea of outshining the others. The search for knowledge and in particular self-knowledge that started in my journey with Oedipus, is not only illusory, it is also a conceit, perhaps also a male conceit. Some conceits concerning Scottish education are exactly that, but there has been a long-standing tradition of higher rates of participation at university which dates back to medieval times. Hamer pushes this conceit further, but not that much further, and imagines the Swedes persuading their neighbours Norway to participate in a study of single men's kitchen lives, on account of their statistical surplus of such males. Western rationality and pride in democracy can seem an intolerable, parochial conceit to those whose lives have been so violently disturbed. Indeed, the boy known for ‘always thinking ahead’ could never utter the final sentence in the passage-unless he willfully yielded to the seductions of his father's self-indulgent conceits. It is through his attempt to get Givens to confess to his trickery that the narrator comes to realize the conceits he has constructed about himself. No writer could pen a single word but for the rich humus of public domain effort with which we garden our notions and conceits. Here the label - Occidentalist - appears to be less an idea than a conceit. There was much to the conceit but it never gained widespread acceptance and the events leading to 1947 and independence always took precedence over what had happened 90 years earlier. The Rorschach inkblot conceit used for the catalogue was, like the ‘Lost Formats’ issue of Emigre, so overstated and dominant that it crushed the content. This reinvent-the-wheel attitude is a conceit common to all great social and political movements. I confess [he tells Jenny] I recollect some passages relating to that Summer, which formerly gave me a conceit that my sister had some liking to him. And yet, there is a suggestive promise that the conceit, if rightly understood, offers something more, perhaps something less bleak. This may be a romantic conceit, but it has been my understanding that some of the patterns knitted into traditional Aran wool sweaters were magical designs, meant to help protect the wearers while fishing. Synonyms idea, notion, fancy Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘notion’, also ‘quaintly decorative article’): from conceive, on the pattern of pairs such as deceive, deceit.
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