Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to conceive
Participle: conceived
Gerund: conceiving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | conceive |
| you | conceive |
| he;she;it | conceives |
| we | conceive |
| you | conceive |
| they | conceive |
Perfect
| I | have conceived |
| you | have conceived |
| he;she;it | has conceived |
| we | have conceived |
| you | have conceived |
| they | have conceived |
Past
| I | conceived |
| you | conceived |
| he;she;it | conceived |
| we | conceived |
| you | conceived |
| they | conceived |
Pluperfect
| I | had conceived |
| you | had conceived |
| he;she;it | had conceived |
| we | had conceived |
| you | had conceived |
| they | had conceived |
Future
| I | will conceive |
| you | will conceive |
| he;she;it | will conceive |
| we | will conceive |
| you | will conceive |
| they | will conceive |
Future Perfect
| I | will have conceived |
| you | will have conceived |
| he;she;it | will have conceived |
| we | will have conceived |
| you | will have conceived |
| they | will have conceived |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | conceive |
| you | conceive |
| he;she;it | conceive |
| we | conceive |
| you | conceive |
| they | conceive |
Perfect
| I | have conceived |
| you | have conceived |
| he;she;it | have conceived |
| we | have conceived |
| you | have conceived |
| they | have conceived |
Imperfect
| I | conceived |
| you | conceived |
| he;she;it | conceived |
| we | conceived |
| you | conceived |
| they | conceived |
Pluperfect
| I | had conceived |
| you | had conceived |
| he;she;it | had conceived |
| we | had conceived |
| you | had conceived |
| they | had conceived |
Conditional
Present
| I | would conceive |
| you | would conceive |
| he;she;it | would conceive |
| we | would conceive |
| you | would conceive |
| they | would conceive |
Perfect
| I | would have conceived |
| you | would have conceived |
| he;she;it | would have conceived |
| we | would have conceived |
| you | would have conceived |
| they | would have conceived |
Imperative
| you | conceive |
| we | Let's conceive |
| you | conceive |
Verbs conjugated like 'conceive'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'conceive'
conceave,
concave,
concede,
conceipt,
conceit,
concise,
concite,
connive,
conserve,
contrive,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- imagine
- invent, visualize, conjecture, envision, formulate, fancy, speculate
- believe
- understand, appreciate, apprehend, grasp, hold, perceive, comprehend, maintain
- beget
- procreate, father, sire, quicken, gestate, engender
- originate
- invent, create, contrive, design, devise, coin, compose, institute
Antonyms
- imagine
- prove, substantiate, verify, demonstrate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1280, from stem of O.Fr.
conceveir, from L.
concipere (pp.
conceptus) "to take in and hold," from
com- intensive prefix + comb. form of
capere "to take," from PIE
*kap- "to grasp" (see capable). Originally "take (seed) into the womb, become pregnant," sense of "take into the mind" is from c.1340.
2. From Middle English conceyven, from Old French concevoir, conceveir, from Latin concipiō, concipere (“to devise, to conceive”). See: Middle English '
conceyven', Old French '
concevoir', Latin '
concipio'.
Sample Sentences
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‘The result thus far, is quickly related, and easily conceived; but not so was the process; for many weeks of apparently unprofitable labour were passed before it was effected.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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CHAPTER VII The Mother's Struggle It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom's cabin. ~~~ Her husband's suffering and dangers, and the danger of her child, all [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] of the offence, made directly against that assumption. There are only two ways of accounting for this extraordinary proceeding. One is, that after undergoing so much for this copper measure he conceived he had established a sort of claim and right to it. The other that, by dint of long thinking about, it had become a monomania with him, and had acquired a fascination which he found it impossible [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and throwing up the window, was saluted by a lively breeze from the north-west which had sprung up in the night, it came upon me so freshly, rustling with so many happy associations, that I conceived upon the spot a special regard for all airs blowing from that quarter of the compass, which I shall cherish, I dare say, until my own wind has breathed its last frail puff, and withdrawn itself for [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] pages, cannot cost me a single friend on the other side of the Atlantic, who is, in anything, deserving of the name. For the rest, I put my trust, implicitly, in the spirit in which they have been conceived and penned; and I can bide my time.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] Tom's home-yearnings had become so strong that he had begged a sheet of writing-paper of Eva, and, mustering up all his small stock of literary attainment acquired by Mas’r George's instructions, he conceived the bold idea of writing a letter; and he was busy now, on his slate, getting out his first draft. Tom was in a good deal of trouble, for the forms of some of the letters he had forgotten entirely; [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] thought there was somebody to hear, whether there were or not. In fact, St. Clare felt himself borne, on the tide of his faith and feeling, almost to the gates of that heaven he seemed so vividly to conceive. It seemed to bring him nearer to Eva.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] to the skies, and saw that little hand pointing to him the way of life; but a heavy lethargy of sorrow lay on him,—he could not arise. He had one of those natures which could better and more clearly conceive of religious things from its own perceptions and instincts, than many a matter-of-fact and practical Christian. The gift to appreciate and the sense to feel the finer shades and relations of moral [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] seemed drawn away, and he seemed to hear his mother's voice leading his. Voice and instrument seemed both living, and threw out with vivid sympathy those strains which the ethereal Mozart first conceived as his own dying requiem.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Some men, however, are decidedly bettered by being knocked down. If a man lays them fairly flat in the dust, they seem immediately to conceive a respect for him; and Legree was one of this sort. As he rose, therefore, and brushed the dust from his clothes, he eyed the slowly-retreating wagon with some evident consideration; nor did he open [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)