| 单词 | ill-conceived |
| 释义 | ill-conceived (once / 31435 pages) adj An ill-conceived idea is one that hasn't been carefully considered. Your ill-conceived plan to ride your skateboard from New York to California is bound to turn out badly. When you don't spend enough time planning or thinking things through, the result is likely to be an ill-conceived scheme of some kind. Ill-conceived laws tend to have unfortunate effects that lawmakers didn't expect, and ill-conceived movie scripts result in films whose plots make no logical sense. Something that's conceived is thought of, planned, or imagined, and when you add the prefix ill, you get something that's planned badly. WORD FAMILYconceived: ill-conceived+/conceivable: conceivability, conceivableness, conceivably, inconceivable/conceive: conceivable, conceived, conceiver, conceives, conceiving, conceptive, misconceive, preconceive/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 EXAMPLES“The danger is to assume that any intervention no matter how ill-conceived and ill-designed will work.” Economist(Oct 27, 2016) Leslie Gold wrote: "Your 'Meet the Parents' marketing email is incredibly offensive, outdated and ill-conceived. What were you thinking? You've lost me as a customer." BBC(Dec 22, 2016) The novelist Irvine Welsh derided the Dylan selection as an “ill-conceived nostalgia award.” Time(Dec 10, 2016) adj poorly conceived or thought out an ill-conceived plan to take over the company Syn misguided foolish devoid of good sense or judgment |
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