Definition of conceit
- n. - That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind;
idea; thought; image; conception.
- n. - Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension;
as, a man of quick conceit.
- n. - Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively
fancy.
- 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.
- n. - An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.
- n. - Design; pattern.
- v. t. - To conceive; to imagine.
- v. i. - To form an idea; to think.