Definition of conceit

"conceit" in the noun sense

1. amour propre, conceit, self-love, vanity

feelings of excessive pride

2. conceit

an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things

3. conceit

a witty or ingenious turn of phrase

"he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"

4. conceit

an artistic device or effect

"the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree"

5. conceit, conceitedness, vanity

the trait of being unduly vain and conceited false pride

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Quotations for conceit

Be not righteous overmuch. [ Bible ]

Be not wise in your own conceits. [ Bible ]

A fool is wise in his own conceit. [ Proverb ]

I am not in the roll of common men. [ William Shakespeare ]

Expression is the dress of thought, and
Appears more decent as more suitable;
A vile conceit in pompous words expressed,
Is like a clown in regal purple dressed. [ Pope ]

Conceit causes more conversation than wit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. [ William Shakespeare ]

The world knows only two, that's Home and I. [ Ben Jonson ]

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. [ Pope ]

Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. [ Socrates ]

Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. [ Le Sage ]

It is self-conceit that makes opinion obstinate. [ Proverb ]

Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance. [ George Herbert ]

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. [ Ruskin ]

The art of making much show with little substance.. [ Macaulay ]

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. [ Swift ]

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes. [ Henry Home ]

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. [ Lord Greville ]

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. [ Goethe ]

The first business of the philosopher is to part with self-conceit. [ Epictetus ]

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. [ Emmons ]

A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great to him. [ Madame de Girardin ]

The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than others. [ Charron ]

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony. [ William Shakespeare ]

He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials of impotence. [ Lavater ]

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of. [ Lavater ]

Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. [ Addison ]

Conceit not so high a notion of any as to be bashful and impotent in their presence. [ Fuller ]

Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when yet above common-sense. [ Locke ]

Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit. [ Bacon ]

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Some men's censures are like the blasts of rams horns before the walls of Jericho; all a man's fame they lay level at one stroke, when all they go upon is only conceit, without any certain basis. [ J. Beaumont ]

conceit in Scrabble®

The word conceit is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters conceit:

CONCEIT
(94 = 44 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word conceit

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In conceit

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conceit in Words With Friends™

The word conceit is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters conceit:

CONCEIT
(113 = 78 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word conceit

CONCEIT
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In conceit

CONCEIT
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CONCEIT
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Words within the letters of conceit

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3 letter words in conceit (15 words)

4 letter words in conceit (11 words)

5 letter words in conceit (3 words)

6 letter words in conceit (1 word)

7 letter words in conceit (1 word)

Words containing the sequence conceit

Words that start with conceit (5 words)

Words with conceit in them (3 words)

Words that end with conceit (1 word)

Word Growth involving conceit

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