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单词 conceiving
释义

conceive

verb

con·​ceive kən-ˈsēv How to pronounce conceive (audio)
conceived; conceiving

transitive verb

1
a
: to become pregnant with (young)
conceive a child
b
: to cause to begin : originate
a project conceived by the company's founder
2
a
: to take into one's mind
conceive a prejudice
b
: to form a conception of : imagine
a badly conceived design
cleverly conceived teleplays
3
: to apprehend by reason or imagination : understand
unable to conceive his reasons
It is easy enough to conceive the notion that your island is a sort of fortress. Paul Theroux
4
: to have as an opinion
I cannot conceive that he acted alone.

intransitive verb

1
: to become pregnant
2
: to have a conception
usually used with of
conceives of death as emptinessIt is hard to conceive of all the work that must have been involved in starting off from scratch. Harold Fromm
conceiver noun

Synonyms

  • conceit [chiefly dialect]
  • conjure (up)
  • dream
  • envisage
  • envision
  • fancy
  • fantasize
  • fantasy
  • feature
  • ideate
  • image
  • imagine
  • picture
  • see
  • vision
  • visualize
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Example Sentences

When the writer conceived this role, he had a specific actor in mind to play the part. As conceived by the committee, the bill did not raise taxes. a woman who has been unable to conceive a woman who has been unable to conceive a child
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Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Anglo-French conceivre, from Latin concipere to take in, conceive, from com- + capere to take — more at heave entry 1

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Kids Definition

conceive

verb

con·​ceive kən-ˈsēv How to pronounce conceive (audio)
conceived; conceiving
1
: to form an idea of : imagine
She is unable to conceive how it happened.
2
: think sense 1
He was generally conceived of as a genius.

Medical Definition

conceive

verb

con·​ceive kən-ˈsēv How to pronounce conceive (audio)
conceived; conceiving

transitive verb

: to become pregnant with (young)

intransitive verb

: to become pregnant

conceiving 1 of 2

adjective

as in impregnated

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • impregnated
  • childbearing
  • pregnant
  • gestational
  • brooding
  • prenatal
  • expecting
  • caught
  • parturient
  • expectant
  • gone
  • gravid
  • enceinte
  • big
  • heavy
  • quick

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • infertile
  • nonpregnant
  • barren
  • miscarrying
  • aborting
  • delivered

conceiving

2 of 2

verb

present participle of conceive
1
as in imagining
to form a mental picture of it takes an idealist to conceive a world without war, and an activist to make it happen

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • imagining
  • envisioning
  • seeing
  • dreaming
  • picturing
  • visualizing
  • envisaging
  • fancying
  • fantasying
  • visioning
  • fantasizing
  • planning
  • ideating
  • contemplating
  • recreating
  • featuring
  • imaging
  • conceiting
  • inventing
  • foreseeing
  • reflecting
  • daydreaming
  • reliving
  • concocting
  • re-creating
  • pondering
  • manufacturing
  • ruminating
  • hallucinating
  • projecting
  • stargazing
  • meditating
  • conjuring (up)
  • musing
  • reminiscing
  • fabricating
  • prefiguring
  • making up
2
as in understanding
to have a clear idea of I cannot conceive the reason for such pointless vandalism

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • understanding
  • knowing
  • comprehending
  • deciphering
  • recognizing
  • seeing
  • grasping
  • appreciating
  • perceiving
  • getting
  • realizing
  • apprehending
  • assimilating
  • making
  • intuiting
  • cognizing
  • sensing
  • discerning
  • registering
  • seizing
  • beholding
  • compassing
  • decoding
  • catching
  • digging
  • grokking
  • savvying
  • fathoming
  • twigging
  • absorbing
  • making out
  • digesting
  • tumbling (to)
  • picking up on
  • catching on (to)
  • penetrating
  • cottoning (to or on to)
  • taking in
  • piercing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • missing
  • mistaking
  • misinterpreting
  • misconceiving
  • misreading
  • misconstruing
  • misunderstanding
  • misperceiving
  • misapprehending
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3
as in thinking
to have as an opinion I just can't conceive that he would have lied

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • thinking
  • believing
  • imagining
  • considering
  • figuring
  • guessing
  • supposing
  • feeling
  • perceiving
  • deeming
  • judging
  • holding
  • accepting
  • reckoning
  • assuming
  • esteeming
  • regarding
  • allowing
  • viewing
  • relying
  • trusting
  • presuming
  • depending
  • deducing
  • presupposing
  • inferring
  • concluding
  • surmising

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • suspecting
  • questioning
  • doubting
  • rejecting
  • discrediting
  • distrusting
  • mistrusting
  • disbelieving
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