| 单词 | conceit |
| 释义 | conceit (once / 915 pages) 1n 2n 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. WORD FAMILYconceit: conceits USAGE EXAMPLESThe 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) 1 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, vaingloryoutspoken conceit egotism, self-importance, swelled headan exaggerated opinion of your own importance posturingadopting a vain conceited posture superiority complexan exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance trait a distinguishing feature of your personal nature 2n feelings of excessive pride 2Syn|Hyper amour propre, self-love, vanity pride, pridefulness a feeling of self-respect and personal worth 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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