Conceit vs Adapt - What's the difference?
conceit | adapt |
(obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
* Francis Bacon
* Bible, Proverbs xxvi. 12
The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
* Sir Philip Sidney
Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
(countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
* L'Estrange
* Alexander Pope
* Dryden
(countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
* Cotton
Design; pattern.
(obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
* 1643 : ,
(obsolete) To conceive.
* South
* Shakespeare
To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
To change oneself so as to be adapted.
As verbs the difference between conceit and adapt
is that conceit is (obsolete) to form an idea; to think while adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.As a noun conceit
is (obsolete) something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.As an adjective adapt is
adapted; fit; suited; suitable.conceit
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* (obsolete)Noun
- In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.
- a man wise in his own conceit
- a man of quick conceit
- 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.
- His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
- By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte .
- On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit .
- Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.
- Tasso is full of conceits which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.
- Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* conceited * conceitedly * conceitedness * self-conceitVerb
(en verb)The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
- Those whose vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
- 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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Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.