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kənˈsivcon·ceive

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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.2 / 5 votes

  1. conceive

    We perceive what is presented through the senses. We apprehend what is presented to the mind, whether through the senses or by any other means. Yet perceive is used in the figurative sense of seeing through to a conclusion, in a way for which usage would not allow us to substitute apprehend; as, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet," John iv, 19. That which we apprehend we catch, as with the hand; that which we conceive we are able to analyze and recompose in our mind; that which we comprehend, we, as it were, grasp around, take together, seize, embrace wholly within the mind. Many things may be apprehended which can not be comprehended; a child can apprehend the distinction between right and wrong, yet the philosopher can not comprehend it in its fulness. We can apprehend the will of God as revealed in conscience or the Scriptures; we can conceive of certain attributes of Deity, as his truth and justice; but no finite intelligence can comprehend the Divine Nature, in its majesty, power, and perfection. Compare ANTICIPATE; ARREST; CATCH; KNOWLEDGE.

    Synonyms:
    apprehend, comprehend, perceive, understand

    Antonyms:
    fail of, ignore, lose, misapprehend, misconceive, miss, overlook

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.7 / 3 votes

  1. conceive

    Synonyms:
    imagine, apprehend, believe, suppose, design, think, understand

    Antonyms:
    produce, express, propound, declare, execute, misconceive

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualiseverb

    have the idea for

    "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"

    Synonyms:
    conceptualise, gestate, expect, believe, consider, carry, conceptualize, think, have a bun in the oven, bear

  2. think, believe, consider, conceiveverb

    judge or regard; look upon; judge

    "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

    Synonyms:
    cerebrate, conceptualize, suppose, mean, reckon, debate, trust, weigh, view, conceptualise, deliberate, take, study, call up, see, guess, deal, moot, think, intend, opine, recollect, imagine, count, recall, believe, turn over, call back, regard, gestate, consider, remember, cogitate, retrieve, look at

  3. conceiveverb

    become pregnant; undergo conception

    "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"

    Synonyms:
    consider, believe, conceptualize, gestate, think, conceptualise

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. createverb

    to form or devise a plan or idea in the mind.

    the master plan that we spent all day trying to conceive was not coming together.

    Submitted by ny on May 30, 2024  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. conceiveverb

    Synonyms:
    imagine, devise, think of, form in the mind

  2. conceiveverb

    Synonyms:
    apprehend, suppose, think

  3. conceiveverb

    Synonyms:
    become pregnant

  4. conceiveverb

    Synonyms:
    think, imagine, have an idea, form a conception

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "conceive":

    imagine, devise, design, designing, envisage

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How to use conceive in a sentence?

  1. Nicolas Boileau:

    Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

  2. Thomas Jefferson:

    I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

  3. Bertrand Russell:

    The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

  4. Fantasia Barrino:

    Keep trying, and you will conceive.

  5. Gift Gugu Mona:

    God can do above and beyond what a mind can ever conceive.


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