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📖 Определения и значения для слова conceit

📒 the fact of being too proud of yourself and what you do

  • I can say without conceit that I have talent.

📒 an artistic effect or device, especially one that is very clever or tries to be very clever but does not succeed

  • The ill-advised conceit of the guardian angel dooms the film from the start.
  • The director’s brilliant conceit was to film this tale in black and white.

📒 a clever expression in writing or speech that involves a comparison between two things

  • The idea of the wind singing is a romantic conceit.
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