Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being conceived, thought, or understood; supposable; thinkable.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of being imagined
Etymologies
- conceive + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“What I find less conceivable is that these miracles were needed again and again.”
“So also the histories of things both future and past which do not surpass human credence, laws, institutions, manners, I call conceivable and clear, though they cannot be proved mathematically.”
“No more is it conceivable that when the Greek word _baptizoo_ (to immerse) was used, it meant to cleanse by sprinkling (_rantizoo_), or when the word _rantizoo_ (to sprinkle) was used, it meant to cleanse by immersing (_baptizoo_).”
“It was in short conceivable to her that Selina would deny absolutely that she had been in the museum, that they had stood face to face and that she had fled in confusion.”
“You nail it on 0bama becoming a joke, but I'm afraid that the fallout all joke all the time, was on Free Republic, (tip o 'the hat to founder Jim Robinson) that went all comedy all morning and had Zero winning every title conceivable as envisioned by the multi talented residents and staff at Free Republic.”
“You nail it on 0bama becoming a joke, but I'm afraid that the fallout all joke all the time, was on Free Republic, (tip o 'the hat to founder Jim Robinson) that went all comedy all morning and had Zero winning every title conceivable as envisioned by the multi talented residents and staff at Free Republic.”
“Anyone who believes that it’s conceivable is someone who hasn’t got the most basic clue about how software development works.”
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“In regard to matter, therefore, a closed system is conceivable, that is, a system in which there is neither increase nor decrease in material entropy.”
“I was planning to join the march there, but when I was going to that place, I saw such showers, not showers but, rather, a storm, such a drenching rain that I really could not describe as conceivable the march that was staged and organized.”
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“And to make religion akin to friendship is simply to give it the highest expression conceivable by man.”
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Deprefixed words
A list of words you more frequently hear used with prefixes than without.
clement, witting, ravel, whelm, fettered, licit, couth, bridled, wieldy, kempt, ingenuous, iterate and 116 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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GRE AWA
escalating, vehement, vehemence, hostility, paparazzi, regime, irrespective, scoop, exaggerated, overblown, unfetter, scrupulous and 272 more...
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desultory
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pusillanimous, fuselage, obsequiously, necromancy, orotund, absquatulate, tooth, daylight, conceivable
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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absquatulate, conceivable, daylight, fuselage, necromancy, obsequiously, orotund, pusillanimous, tooth, abhor, abide, abscissa and 111 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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2007bee-r02
2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee Round 2
query, tendency, danceable, parachute, malignant, brutal, humanely, lyrically, deductible, shindig, gravel, embroidered and 274 more...
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Words I suspect myself of overusing
amazing, intrinsic, incredibly, fascinating, totally, completely, definitely, fantastic, absolutely, remotely, really, hitherto and 16 more...
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week 4
ceaselessly, orgastic, subtle, unutterable, elocution, superfluous, surmise, derange, pasquinade, formidable, rancor, laden and 8 more...
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