Synonyms for conceive
kənˈsivcon·ceive

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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

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1. conceive

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

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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Change State
   • Create By Mental Act
   • Judge

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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

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1. List of paraphrases for "conceive":

   imagine, devise, design, designing, envisage

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1. Charles de Gaulle:

   How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.

2. Ryan Reynolds:

   It's still so new that it's hard to conceive being away for more than seven hours at a time.

3. Florence Nightingale:

   To be a fellow worker with God is the highest aspiration of which we can conceive man capable.

4. Rene Descartes:

   One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

5. Adam Brumm:

   The images of therianthropes may also represent the earliest evidence for our capacity to conceive of things that do not exist in the natural world, a basic concept that underpins modern religion, therianthropes occur in the folklore or narrative fiction of almost every modern society, and they are perceived as gods, spirits or ancestral beings in many religions worldwide.