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Conceived vs Conceivable - What's the difference?

conceived | conceivable |

As a verb conceived

is (conceive).

As an adjective conceivable is

capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable.

conceived

English

Verb

(head)
  • (conceive)

  • conceive

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Verb

    (conceiv)
  • To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
  • * 1606 , , Shakespeare, II-4
  • We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
  • * Gibbon
  • It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
  • To understand (someone).
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • I conceive you.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
  • (senseid)(intransitive, or, transitive) To become pregnant.
  • * Bible, Luke i. 36
  • She hath also conceived a son in her old age.

    conceivable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable.
  • Antonyms

    * inconceivable

    Derived terms

    * conceivability * conceivableness * conceivably