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con·ceiv·a·ble    Audio Help   [kuhn-see-vuh-buhl] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
capable of being conceived; imaginable.

[Origin: 1425–75; late ME. See conceive, -able]

con·ceiv·a·bil·i·ty, con·ceiv·a·ble·ness, noun
con·ceiv·a·bly, adverb
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con·ceive    Audio Help   (kən-sēv')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   con·ceived, con·ceiv·ing, con·ceives

v.   tr.
  1. To become pregnant with (offspring).
  2. To form or develop in the mind; devise: conceive a plan to increase profits.
  3. To apprehend mentally; understand: couldn't conceive the meaning of that sentence.
  4. To be of the opinion that; think: didn't conceive such a tragedy could occur.
  5. To begin or originate in a specific way: a political movement conceived in the ferment of the 1960s.

v.   intr.
  1. To form or hold an idea: Ancient peoples conceived of the earth as flat.
  2. To become pregnant.


[Middle English conceiven, from Old French concevoir, conceiv-, from Latin concipere : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + capere, to take; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]

con·ceiv'a·bil'i·ty, con·ceiv'a·ble·ness n., con·ceiv'a·ble adj., con·ceiv'a·bly adv., con·ceiv'er n.
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conceivable

adjective
capable of being imagined; "that is one possible answer" 

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conˈceivable adjective
able to be imagined or thought of
Arabic: مُمْكِن إدراكُه أو تَصَوُّرُه
Chinese (Simplified): 可想象的
Chinese (Traditional): 可想象的
Czech: představitelný
Danish: tænkelig; mulig
Dutch: denkbaar
Estonian: mõeldav
Finnish: ajateltavissa oleva
French: concevable
German: vorstellbar
Greek: νοητός
Hungarian: elképzelhető
Icelandic: hugsanlegur
Indonesian: terbayangkan
Italian: concepibile, immaginabile
Japanese: 考えられる
Korean: 상상할 수 있는
Latvian: iedomājams; aptverams; iespējams
Lithuanian: įsivaizduojamas, suvokiamas
Norwegian: tenkelig, mulig
Polish: wyobrażalny, do pomyślenia
Portuguese (Brazil): concebível
Portuguese (Portugal): concebível
Romanian: de conceput
Russian: постижимый
Slovak: predstaviteľný
Slovenian: mogoč
Spanish: concebible
Swedish: begriplig, upptänklig
Turkish: düşünülebilir, akla uygun
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

conceivable

Ac"tu*al\ (#; 135), a. [OE. actuel, F. actuel, L. actualis, fr. agere to do, act.]

1. Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.]

Her walking and other actual performances. --Shak.

Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. --Jer. Taylor.

2. Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

3. In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.

Actual cautery. See under Cautery.

Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."

Syn: Real; genuine; positive; certain. See Real.
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