Crossword-Solution: CONCEIT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Conceit | n. | That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. |
| Conceit | n. | Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit. |
| Conceit | n. | Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. |
| Conceit | n. | A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip. |
| Conceit | n. | An overweening idea of one's self; vanity. |
| Conceit | n. | Design; pattern. |
| Conceit | v. t. | To conceive; to imagine. |
| Conceit | v. i. | To form an idea; to think. |
We have 58 clues for the answer “CONCEIT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Prima donna's quality | 1 answer |
| Downfall for Narcissus | 1 answer |
| Whimsical idea. | 2 answers |
| Odd notion. | 4 answers |
| AMOUR propre | 4 answers |
| overconfidence | 4 answers |
| Swelled head | 5 answers |
| Fanciful notion | 6 answers |
| Fanciful idea | 6 answers |
| Snobbery | 10 answers |
| BIG head | 13 answers |
| crotchet | 13 answers |
| Vainglory | 13 answers |
| superbity | 19 answers |
| Morgue | 20 answers |
| hubris | 20 answers |
| Hauteur | 23 answers |
| egotism | 23 answers |
| forwardness | 24 answers |
| Haughtiness | 25 answers |
| complacency | 25 answers |
| Egoism | 27 answers |
| stuffiness | 27 answers |
| Narcissism | 27 answers |
| Ego | 27 answers |
| high mightiness | 28 answers |
| Vanity | 28 answers |
| Conception | 31 answers |
| vagary | 35 answers |
| Consequence | 35 answers |
| Contumely | 35 answers |
| lip service | 37 answers |
| Imagination | 38 answers |
| Sneer? | 41 answers |
| loftiness | 41 answers |
| Concept | 44 answers |
| Effrontery | 45 answers |
| freak | 46 answers |
| ideality | 48 answers |
| Arrogance | 50 answers |
| Scorn | 50 answers |
| assumption | 51 answers |
| Notion | 54 answers |
| Impression | 55 answers |
| Disdain | 55 answers |
| Pride | 56 answers |
| Gall | 57 answers |
| whim | 62 answers |
| Cheek | 66 answers |
| Witticism | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONCEIT (5)
The ignorance and the fatuous conceit which lay behind her grimacing mask of slang and ridicule humiliated him so deeply that he became absolutely reckless.
There were even indications that he admired it; indications dimmed, it is true, by the distance that lay between the lofty boss-pilotical altitude and my lowly one, yet perceptible to me; perceptible, and translatable into a compliment—compliment coming down from above the snow-line and not well thawed in the transit, and not likely to set anything afire, not even a cub-pilot’s self-conceit; still a detectable complement, and precious.
Then, I said, we will not allow those for whom we profess a care and of whom we say that they ought to be good men, to imitate a woman, whether young or old, quarrelling with her husband, or striving and vaunting against the gods in conceit of her happiness, or when she is in affliction, or sorrow, or weeping; and certainly not one who is in sickness, love, or labour.
Although he had some talent in research, having received a sizable grant, his conceit and arrogance got in the way of establishing a rapport with students.
They had not a conceit of themselves, but a sort of content in their own ways that one may notice in certain families.
Quotes with CONCEIT (3)
The being called God... bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator — that's beyond my conceit. I therefore have no choice but to find something suspect even in the humblest believer. Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1954–2022).