CONCEIT Synonyms: 155 Similar and Opposite Words

conceit 1 of 2

noun

kən-ˈsēt

as in metaphor

an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something the conceit that the crowd at the outdoor rock concert was a vast sea of people waving to the beat of the music

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as in illusion

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality his dream of swimming in the Olympics is nothing more than a conceit

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as in vanity

an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements even though her novels are enormously popular, the writer is more prone to humility than to conceit

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conceit

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verb

chiefly dialect

as in to imagine

to form a mental picture of after a huge meal like that, I cannot conceit eating another thing for the rest of the day

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Recent Examples of conceit

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If the novelty of his fish-out-of-water conceit eventually runs thin, Garcia brings it to a satisfying conclusion, in which a man caught in the past tries to claw his way back to the real world. —

Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026 This might actually be the first Yoshi platformer to not fully embrace a unique arts-and-crafts aesthetic in quite some time, considering how much Yoshi's Crafted World and Yoshi's Woolly World leaned fully into their papercraft and yarn conceits, respectively. —

Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 19 May 2026 Co-creators Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel also took part, pretty much sinking the celebrity conceit with every one of their too frequent appearances on stage. —

Greg Evans, Deadline, 18 May 2026 This statute, colloquially called Section 230 for its place in the Communications Act, rests on the conceit that, free from the threat of litigation, platforms would do good and attend to user preferences far better than regulators ever could. —

Olivier Sylvain, Fortune, 16 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for conceit

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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.

— Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
In many ways, SpaceX's Starship rocket is a metaphor for the company as a whole.

— David Szondy May 31, New Atlas, 31 May 2026