conceit

conceit

englanti
  1. kielikuva, ajatus, idea, vertaus, metafora

  2. mielikuvan muodostaminen, mielikuvitus

  3. omahyväisyys, pöyhkeys

Esimerkkejä:

a man of quick conceit

Synonyymisanakirja

conceit

luonteenpiirre, itserakkaus, narsismi, omahyväisyys, turhamaisuus, egotismi, itsekeskeisyys, suuret luulot, poseeraus.

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Englannin sanakirja

conceit (englanti > suomi)

  1. omahyväisyys, itserakkaus

conceit englanniksi

  1. puhekieltä Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. (defdate)

  2. Francis Bacon

  3. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.
  4. Bible, Proverbs xxvi. 12

  5. a man wise in his own conceit
  6. The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.

  7. a man of quick conceit

  8. Sir Philip Sidney

  9. How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
  10. Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

  11. Shakespeare

  12. His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
  13. puhekieltä opinion Opinion, (neutral) judgment. (defdate)

  14. puhekieltä esteem Esteem, favourable opinion. (defdate)

  15. 1499, (w), The Bowge of Courte:

  16. By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte.
  17. puhekieltä A novel or fanciful idea; a whim. (defdate)

  18. L'Estrange

  19. On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit.
  20. Alexander Pope

  21. Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.
  22. Dryden

  23. Tasso is full of conceits (..) which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.
  24. puhekieltä An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. (defdate)

  25. puhekieltä Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. (defdate)

  26. Cotton

  27. Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.
  28. Design; pattern.

  29. (rfquotek)

  30. puhekieltä To form an idea; to think.

  31. 1643: w:John Milton|John Milton, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/ddd/book_1/ The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

  32. Those whose (..) vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
  33. puhekieltä To conceive.

  34. South

  35. The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive (..) as if they really were so.
    One of two bad ways you must conceit me, / Either a coward or a flatterer.

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