| 单词 | conceivable |
| 释义 | conceivable (once / 509 pages) adj If you see yellowish skies on a humid, spring evening in Kansas, it is entirely conceivable that a tornado is in the making. That is to say, it's imaginable or even possible, so make sure you take every conceivable precaution. If you conceive of something, you imagine or think of it. So, it makes sense that the adjective conceivable describes things that can be imagined or thought of. People often use the word conceivable in extreme contexts. If you look everywhere for your homework but still can't find it, you might declare, "I searched in every conceivable location! My homework must have disappeared." In response, your teacher might remark that disappearing homework is inconceivable, or "impossible to imagine." WORD FAMILYconceivable: conceivability, conceivableness, conceivably, inconceivable+/conceive: conceivable, conceived, conceiver, conceives, conceiving, conceptive, misconceive, preconceive/conceived: ill-conceived/conceiver: conceivers/concept: conceive, conception, concepts, conceptual, conceptualize/conception: conceptional, conceptions/conceptual: conceptualise, conceptualism, conceptuality, conceptually/conceptualise: conceptualisation/conceptualism: conceptualistic/conceptualization: conceptualizations/conceptualize: conceptualization, conceptualized, conceptualizes, conceptualizing/inconceivability: inconceivabilities/inconceivable: inconceivability, inconceivableness, inconceivably/misconceive: misconceived, misconceives, misconceiving, misconception/misconception: misconceptions/preconceive: preconceived, preconceives, preconception/preconception: preconceptions USAGE EXAMPLESThe only conceivable solution would be a universal basic income with no means test and not work requirements---along with a shorter work week. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) The incident is rehashed from all conceivable angles; so is a fraught dinner with friends, which gets seven full pages parsing their marital collapse. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) “No future is conceivable in Plot E,” he says, “only endless, gray repetition, unhappy flashbacks collapsing into more unhappy flashbacks.” Washington Post(Dec 01, 2016) adj capable of being imagined Syn imaginable thinkable capable of being conceived or imagined or considered |
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