On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Conceit. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as vanity or pride and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Conceit meaning
- Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
- The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
- Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
Synonyms of Conceit
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Using Conceit
- The main meaning on this page is: Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. | The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension. | Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
- Useful related words include: vanity, pride, device, turn of expression.
- Possible Dutch translations are: verwaandheid, ijdelheid, hoogmoed.
- In the example corpus, conceit often appears in combinations such as: the conceit, conceit of, conceit that.
Context around Conceit
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Conceit
- In this selection, "conceit" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, deep, political, tricky, needs, allows and doesn stand out and add context to how "conceit" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a tricky conceit to pull and an intriguing conceit that doesn. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "conceit" sits close to words such as aadmi, aang and ably, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with conceit
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This conceit is naive. (4 words)
Not every successful horror conceit merits is unendingly scary. (9 words)
Puccini’s is a conceit employed in almost every Western film since. (12 words)
On the downside, the brilliant conceit of the original books was a commentary on mid-2000s pop culture rolling on while the Iraq war was raging, and Collins hasn’t come up with a similarly clever or timely idea to underpin this story. (43 words)
Malcolm Fraser’s granddaughter got out her ouija board this week to tell us that her grandfather, had he still been alive, would have voted yes in the Voice to parliament referendum, the conceit became an instant meme in the chat channels. (42 words)
The conceit, an Airbnb Experiences class in making cocktails, requires Atkinson to get through a lot of stage business while telling her story, but since the cocktails are themselves a distraction tactic employed by her character, it all hangs together. (40 words)
The movie plays peekaboo with its central conceit — is “the Evil” real, or is mom just off her rocker? (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence.
He said the show’s theme of political conceit allows him to capture 68 minutes of non-stop self-effacing hilarity into one ‘flimsy’ narrative framework.
His conceit was to make prosaic, cheap and unimportant things monumental and (ironically) prestigious.
However, that conceit doesn't take the sting out of seeing a fan favorite leave.
It is, however, a movie with a tricky conceit to pull off, one I am trying not to spoil for you.
It's the one-shot conceit movie that was done in the mid-'90s, and they hadn't really made one-shot movies yet.
Malcolm Fraser’s granddaughter got out her ouija board this week to tell us that her grandfather, had he still been alive, would have voted yes in the Voice to parliament referendum, the conceit became an instant meme in the chat channels.
On the downside, the brilliant conceit of the original books was a commentary on mid-2000s pop culture rolling on while the Iraq war was raging, and Collins hasn’t come up with a similarly clever or timely idea to underpin this story.
Puccini’s is a conceit employed in almost every Western film since.
The book is, in other words, a tale of drift in —but one you get coaxed into reading by the novelty of its conceit.
The conceit of the novel is there’s this 13-year-old girl … she observes something.
The plot twists keep on coming until the novel’s coda, where a final joyful conceit is revealed.
Despite the clunky conceit, Hatton covers vast ground from marriage to the zodiac.
Not every successful horror conceit merits is unendingly scary.
The movie plays peekaboo with its central conceit — is “the Evil” real, or is mom just off her rocker?
This conceit is naive.
And if the show’s conceit is somewhat insincere, the connections he forms are surprisingly genuine.
Even with the show's central time travel conceit, the character hasn't been seen since.
Reflecting the film’s literary roots (it’s adapted from a novel by one of the screenwriters, Domenico Starnone), this bifocal effect is an intriguing conceit that doesn’t fully blossom in a somewhat cramped 100-minute running time.
The conceit, an Airbnb Experiences class in making cocktails, requires Atkinson to get through a lot of stage business while telling her story, but since the cocktails are themselves a distraction tactic employed by her character, it all hangs together.
Common combinations with conceit
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the conceit 13×
- conceit of 11×
- conceit that 9×
- conceit is 7×
- conceit to 3×
- and conceit 3×
- or conceit 3×
- conceit was 2×
- brilliant conceit 2×
- central conceit 2×