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- pronunciation:
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- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
conceives, conceiving, conceived |
| definition 1: |
to give shape to in the mind.
She conceived a brilliant strategy.He gave himself a little time to conceive a good excuse.
- synonyms:
- conceptualize, design, envision, fancy, form, imagine, invent, picture, think, visualize
- similar words:
- contrive, devise, envisage, fabricate, formulate, frame, hatch, ideate, lay, plan
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| definition 2: |
to be able to think of or imagine.
He is so prepared this time that I cannot conceive his failing.She tried to conceive how she would look in thirty years.- synonyms:
- conceptualize, envision, fancy, imagine, picture, visualize
- similar words:
- believe, come up with, think
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| definition 3: |
to become pregnant with.
It was not long before she conceived her first child.- similar words:
- beget, breed, engender, generate, hatch, procreate, propagate
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| definition 4: |
to begin or originate.
Our book group was conceived over twelve years ago.- synonyms:
- begin, create, engender, form, generate, hatch, originate, start
- similar words:
- beget, breed, establish, found, institute, procreate
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| related words: |
comprehend, create, fancy, image, imagine, initiate, invent, mother, picture, realize, suppose |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to form a concept, idea, or image in one's mind (usu. fol. by "of").
The chef conceived of a fabulous new dessert.I could never have conceived of his running away like that.- synonyms:
- conceptualize, ideate, imagine, visualize
- similar words:
- create, think
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| definition 2: |
to become pregnant.
They had been married for several years but his wife had not conceived.- similar words:
- bear, breed, propagate, reproduce
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| related words: |
compose, imagine, procreate |
adverb + (v.)conceive
badly, beautifully, boldly, brilliantly, broadly, carefully, cleverly, distinctly, hastily, imaginatively, independently, initially, narrowly, newly, originally, poorly, presently, properly, socially, traditionally
(v.)conceive
+ adverb
differently, flawlessly, naturally
(v.)conceive
+ noun
child, donor, entity, fertility, fertilization, fetus, hatred, idea, insemination, liberty, monument, offspring, outset, plot, possibility, sin, sperm, wedlock
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| derivation: |
conceiver (n.) |
The word conceive
contains the following parts:
con-
Latin
prefix
that means with, together
  More about this word part:
The prefix con-
is an assimilated form of com- used before roots beginning with c, d, f, g, j, n, s, t, and v. See com-. Note: con-
is frequently an intensive prefix, as in " conceive
."
Example words:
conceive, concentrate, concentric, conclude, conclusion, condone, conduce, conducive, conduct, conductive, conduction, confer, conference, confidant, confide, confidence, confident, confine, confirm, conflict, confluence, conflux, conform, confuse, confusion, congener, congratulate, congregate, congress, conjecture, conjunct, conjunction, conjunctiva, connect, connote, conscript, conscription, consign, consonant, conspiracy, constant, constrain, construct, construction, contact, contain, container, context, continue, contract, conversant, convince, convict, conviction, convivial, convocation, convoke, inconceivable, inconsonant, inconspicuous, connotation, consequence, consequent
cap1, cip, capt, cept, -ceive, -ceit
Latin
root
that means to take, catch
Example words:
accept, acceptable, acceptance, capability, capable, capacious, capacity, captive, capture, conceive, concept, deceive, deception, deceptive, except, exception, incapable, inconceivable, intercept, participant, participate, perceive, perceptive, percipient, precept, receive, reception, recipient, susceptible
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