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单词 conceit
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conceit
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If you’re always boasting and can’t stop talking about yourself, you have that character flaw known as conceit. Your friends — if you have any — may also complain about your arrogance, vanity, and egotism.
A conceit can also be an artistic device — probably a little forced — like the plot of a movie built on the conceit of everything that happens being foretold in song. You might find an architectural conceit in a Baroque palace, where you think you’re looking down a long hallway lined with columns, but when you get closer you see that it's really a mural painted in perspective so that the columns only seem to disappear in the distance.
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conceit: conceits
USAGE EXAMPLES
The film’s heist conceit was kind of a line in the sand for a lot of people.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016)
It’s a clever enough conceit, doomed by a bungled meet cute.
Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016)
But even these relatively simple moments are transformed and complicated by the sheer audacity of Larraín’s stylistic conceits.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 15, 2016)
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1n the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper
conceitedness, vanity
humbleness, humility
a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride
narcism, narcissism, self-love
an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself
boastfulness, vainglory
outspoken conceit
egotism, self-importance, swelled head
an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
posturing
adopting a vain conceited posture
superiority complex
an exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance
trait
a distinguishing feature of your personal nature
2n feelings of excessive pride
Syn|Hyper
amour propre, self-love, vanity
pride, pridefulness
a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
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1n an artistic device or effect
the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree
Hyper
device
something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
2n an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
Hyper
figure, figure of speech, image, trope
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
3n a witty or ingenious turn of phrase
he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit
Hyper
turn of expression, turn of phrase
a distinctive spoken or written expression
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