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单词 conceit
例句 conceitnoun

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

metaphor

deviceanalogy, circumlocution, code word, crank, dead metaphor, euphemism, similecatachresis, mixed metaphor

figure of speech

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

chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy(also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm(also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision

ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wispbrainchild, ideaconcoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, inventionenvisaging, imaging, visualizationcloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopiadaymare, nightmare

castle in Spain, castle in the air

actuality, fact, reality

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

amour propre, bighead, complacence, complacency, conceitedness, ego, egotism, pomposity, pompousness, pride, pridefulness, self-admiration, self-assumption, self-conceit, self-congratulation, self-esteem, self-glory, self-importance, self-love, self-opinion, self-satisfaction, smugness, swelled head, swellheadedness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity

assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidenceself-righteousnessarrogance, disdainfulness, haughtiness, imperiousness, lordliness, self-assertion, snobbishness, superciliousness, superiorityhubris, overconfidence, presumptionpretense(or pretence), pretension, pretentiousnessegoism, self-centeredness, selfishnessself-pride, self-respect

humbleness, humility, modesty

diffidence, self-doubtself-disgust, self-hate, self-loathingaltruism, unselfishnessbashfulness, demureness, shyness, timidity, timidnesspassiveness, passivity

conceitverbchiefly dialect

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

conceive, conjure (up), dream, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, ideate, image, imagine, picture, see, vision, visualize

daydream, stargazehallucinatere-create, reflect, relive, reminiscecontemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, ruminateconcoct, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, plan, projectforesee, prefigure

in the 14th century

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