Conceivable
adjective
Possible to imagine or think about.
It's conceivable that the illness could have been prevented with early intervention.
Often appears as...
- every conceivable way
- conceivably possible
adjective
Able to be understood by the mind.
These scientific concepts are not conceivable by the average person.
Often appears as...
- easily conceivable
- scarcely conceivable
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Academic
adjective
Possible to imagine or think about.
It's conceivable that the illness could have been prevented with early intervention.
Often appears as...
- every conceivable way
- conceivably possible
adjective
Able to be understood by the mind.
These scientific concepts are not conceivable by the average person.
Often appears as...
- easily conceivable
- scarcely conceivable
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Potential Reality
Use 'conceivable' to discuss something that could actually occur, even if it's hypothetical.
With technological advancements, colonizing Mars is conceivable.
Pro Tip 2/3Stretch of Imagination
'Conceivable' means something can be envisioned, so stretch your imagination to its limits.
In a conceivable future, cars might fly.
Pro Tip 3/3Speculative Discussions
Use 'conceivable' when you're speculating about potential outcomes or scenarios.
It's conceivable that they will settle the dispute before the court date.
Pro Tip 1/3Potential Reality
Use 'conceivable' to discuss something that could actually occur, even if it's hypothetical.
With technological advancements, colonizing Mars is conceivable.
Pro Tip 2/3Stretch of Imagination
'Conceivable' means something can be envisioned, so stretch your imagination to its limits.
In a conceivable future, cars might fly.
Pro Tip 3/3Speculative Discussions
Use 'conceivable' when you're speculating about potential outcomes or scenarios.
It's conceivable that they will settle the dispute before the court date.
Pro Tip 1/3Potential Reality
Use 'conceivable' to discuss something that could actually occur, even if it's hypothetical.
With technological advancements, colonizing Mars is conceivable.
Pro Tip 2/3Stretch of Imagination
'Conceivable' means something can be envisioned, so stretch your imagination to its limits.
In a conceivable future, cars might fly.
Pro Tip 3/3Speculative Discussions
Use 'conceivable' when you're speculating about potential outcomes or scenarios.
It's conceivable that they will settle the dispute before the court date.
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At what moment are you...
when newer technology is able to help them. See, if the cells are frozen, there's very little molecular movement, and diffusion practically stops. Even if all of a person's cellular processes had already broken down, this could still conceivably be reversed by a swarm of nanobots, moving all the molecules back to their proper positions,
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Choice, happiness and...
So he said, this is what I want to do. And he got together with the Campbell's soup kitchen, and he made 45 varieties of spaghetti sauce. And he varied them according to every conceivable way that you can vary tomato by sweetness, by level of garlic, by tomatoey-ness, by tartness, by sourness,
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Why does the universe...
We just see a little tiny part of reality that's described by the laws of quantum field theory, but there are many, many other worlds, parts of reality that are described by vastly different theories that are different from ours in ways we can't imagine, that are inconceivably exotic.
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Why is the Mona Lisa so...
it wasn’t totally inconceivable for Peruggia to be locked inside the museum. And, lucky for him, when a workman encountered him in the stairwell, he simply helped Peruggia open the door and let him walk out into the morning. The theft made international headlines.
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Can you solve the rogue...
The trick is to put yourself in the heads of both characters and narrow down the possibilities based on what they know or don’t know. So let's start with A's first statement. It means that B could conceivably have something with the potential
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There's more to life...
Even though life is getting objectively better by nearly every conceivable standard, more people feel hopeless, depressed and alone. There's an emptiness gnawing away at people, and you don't have to be clinically depressed to feel it.
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Blueprint for a quiet...
world talking to every conceivable type of organization and you know who I found gets the potential of quiet leaders better than anyone the military the military where leadership is a matter of life and death and everybody knows that
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How do you know what's...
that has transformed our understanding of truth, justice and human memory. The Rashomon effect describes a situation in which individuals give significantly different but equally conceivable accounts of the same event.
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5 Degrees Warmer:...
drying out climate refugees number in the hundreds of millions this could be our world plus five degrees I think in a world which is much warmer than now fire degrees it's going to be inconceivable
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
She said, "Yes, if the sacral nerve is being oxygenated, you conceivably could." Obviously it wouldn't be as much fun for the person. But it would be an orgasm -- nonetheless.
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At what moment are you...
when newer technology is able to help them. See, if the cells are frozen, there's very little molecular movement, and diffusion practically stops. Even if all of a person's cellular processes had already broken down, this could still conceivably be reversed by a swarm of nanobots, moving all the molecules back to their proper positions,
Video examples
Choice, happiness and...
So he said, this is what I want to do. And he got together with the Campbell's soup kitchen, and he made 45 varieties of spaghetti sauce. And he varied them according to every conceivable way that you can vary tomato by sweetness, by level of garlic, by tomatoey-ness, by tartness, by sourness,
Video examples
Why does the universe...
We just see a little tiny part of reality that's described by the laws of quantum field theory, but there are many, many other worlds, parts of reality that are described by vastly different theories that are different from ours in ways we can't imagine, that are inconceivably exotic.
Video examples
Why is the Mona Lisa so...
it wasn’t totally inconceivable for Peruggia to be locked inside the museum. And, lucky for him, when a workman encountered him in the stairwell, he simply helped Peruggia open the door and let him walk out into the morning. The theft made international headlines.
Video examples
Can you solve the rogue...
The trick is to put yourself in the heads of both characters and narrow down the possibilities based on what they know or don’t know. So let's start with A's first statement. It means that B could conceivably have something with the potential
Video examples
There's more to life...
Even though life is getting objectively better by nearly every conceivable standard, more people feel hopeless, depressed and alone. There's an emptiness gnawing away at people, and you don't have to be clinically depressed to feel it.
Video examples
Blueprint for a quiet...
world talking to every conceivable type of organization and you know who I found gets the potential of quiet leaders better than anyone the military the military where leadership is a matter of life and death and everybody knows that
Video examples
How do you know what's...
that has transformed our understanding of truth, justice and human memory. The Rashomon effect describes a situation in which individuals give significantly different but equally conceivable accounts of the same event.
Video examples
5 Degrees Warmer:...
drying out climate refugees number in the hundreds of millions this could be our world plus five degrees I think in a world which is much warmer than now fire degrees it's going to be inconceivable
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
She said, "Yes, if the sacral nerve is being oxygenated, you conceivably could." Obviously it wouldn't be as much fun for the person. But it would be an orgasm -- nonetheless.
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Friedrich St. Florian
Austrian Architect
The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the 'intellectuals.
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John Knowles
American Novelist
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.
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Paul Theroux
American Novelist
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
German Composer
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
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Joseph Addison
English Writer
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Theodore William Richards
American Scientist
If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
What you have in my work is one person's path as he travels through the world, and there is no limitation of what is conceivable.
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Steven Weinberg
American Scientist
I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.
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Archer John Porter Martin
British Scientist
If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
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Friedrich St. Florian
Austrian Architect
The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the 'intellectuals.
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John Knowles
American Novelist
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.
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Paul Theroux
American Novelist
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
German Composer
In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
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Joseph Addison
English Writer
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Theodore William Richards
American Scientist
If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
What you have in my work is one person's path as he travels through the world, and there is no limitation of what is conceivable.
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Steven Weinberg
American Scientist
I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.
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Archer John Porter Martin
British Scientist
If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
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