Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to con
Participle: conned
Gerund: conning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | con |
| you | con |
| he;she;it | cons |
| we | con |
| you | con |
| they | con |
Perfect
| I | have conned |
| you | have conned |
| he;she;it | has conned |
| we | have conned |
| you | have conned |
| they | have conned |
Past
| I | conned |
| you | conned |
| he;she;it | conned |
| we | conned |
| you | conned |
| they | conned |
Pluperfect
| I | had conned |
| you | had conned |
| he;she;it | had conned |
| we | had conned |
| you | had conned |
| they | had conned |
Future
| I | will con |
| you | will con |
| he;she;it | will con |
| we | will con |
| you | will con |
| they | will con |
Future Perfect
| I | will have conned |
| you | will have conned |
| he;she;it | will have conned |
| we | will have conned |
| you | will have conned |
| they | will have conned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | con |
| you | con |
| he;she;it | con |
| we | con |
| you | con |
| they | con |
Perfect
| I | have conned |
| you | have conned |
| he;she;it | have conned |
| we | have conned |
| you | have conned |
| they | have conned |
Imperfect
| I | conned |
| you | conned |
| he;she;it | conned |
| we | conned |
| you | conned |
| they | conned |
Pluperfect
| I | had conned |
| you | had conned |
| he;she;it | had conned |
| we | had conned |
| you | had conned |
| they | had conned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would con |
| you | would con |
| he;she;it | would con |
| we | would con |
| you | would con |
| they | would con |
Perfect
| I | would have conned |
| you | would have conned |
| he;she;it | would have conned |
| we | would have conned |
| you | would have conned |
| they | would have conned |
Imperative
| you | con |
| we | Let's con |
| you | con |
Verbs conjugated like 'con'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'con'
can,
cob,
cod,
cog,
coin,
cond,
cone,
conk,
conn,
cons,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- deceive
- swindle, cheat, trick, gyp, mislead, dupe
- study
- peruse, scan, examine
Antonyms
- deceive
- undeceive, enlighten, counsel, disabuse
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-né-
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti
5. Proto-Germanic *kunnaną
6. Proto-West Germanic *kunnan
7. Old English cunnan
8. Middle English connen
9. English con
10. Inherited from Middle English connen, inherited from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan (“recognize, know how”), inherited from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną (“to know, know how”), inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”) Doublet of can. See: Old English '
cunnan', Old English '
cunnan', Proto-Germanic '
*kunnaną', Proto-Germanic '
*kunnaną'.
Verbs referencing "con"
English
squirrel, Danish
kunne.
Sample Sentences
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For Caſſius is a-weary of the World: / Hated by one he loues, brau'd by his Brother, / Check'd like a bondman, all his faults obſeru'd, / Set in a Note-booke, learn'd, and con'd by roate / To caſt into my Teeth. [1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 125, column 1:]
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At length, himself unsettling, he the pond / Stirred with his staff, and fixedly did look / Upon the muddy water, which he conned, / As if he had been reading in a book [1815 [1802], William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence:]
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I did not come into parliament to con my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel. [1795, Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made upon him and his Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Session of Parliament:]
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During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility. [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:]
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He read old almanacs at the book-stalls on the quays, and he began to frequent another café, where more newspapers were taken and his post-prandial demi-tasse cost him a penny extra, and where he used to con the tattered sheets for curious anecdotes, freaks of nature, and strange coincidences. [1876 July, Henry James, Jr., “The American”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXXVIII, number CCXXV, Boston, Mass.: H[enry] O[scar] Houghton and Company; New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, chapter IV, page 17, column 2:]
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One day, however, when he had been conning one of his music-scores, and by force of imagination was hearing the tune in his head, he lapsed into listlessness, and the music-sheet rolled to the hearth. [1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XVIII, in Tess of the D’Urbervilles:]
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Du Mornay exchanged a few words with me, to assure himself that I understood what I had to do, and then, with many kind expressions, which I did not fail to treasure up and con over in the times that were coming, hastened downstairs after his master. [1893, Stanley J. Weyman, “II. The King of Navarre”, in A Gentleman of France:]
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The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye. [1963, D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories:]
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Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill [1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:]