'Conceive' definitions:
Definition of 'conceive'
From: WordNet
verb
Have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived" [syn: gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise]
verb
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" [syn: think, believe, consider, conceive]
verb
Become pregnant; undergo conception; "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"
Definition of 'Conceive'
From: GCIDE
- Conceive \Con*ceive"\, v. i.
- 1. To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant. [1913 Webster]
- A virgin shall conceive, and bear a son. --Isa. vii. 14. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of. [1913 Webster]
- Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their own natures. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Conceive'
From: GCIDE
- Conceive \Con*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conceived; p. pr. & vb. n. Conceiving.] [OF. conzoivre, concever, conceveir, F. concevoir, fr. L. oncipere to take, to conceive; con- + capere to seize or take. See Capable, and cf. Conception.]
- 1. To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of. [1913 Webster]
- She hath also conceived a son in her old age. --Luke i. 36. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope. [1913 Webster]
- It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster]
- Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. --Is. lix. 13. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand. "I conceive you." --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate. --Swift.
- Syn: To apprehend; imagine; suppose; understand; comprehend; believe; think. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'conceive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absorb,
- accept,
- account as,
- animate,
- appreciate,
- apprehend,
- assimilate,
- assume,
- author,
- be acquainted with,
- be afraid,
- be apprised of,
- be aware of,
- be cognizant of,
- be conscious of,
- be conversant with,
- be informed,
- be with one,
- bear,
- beget,
- believe,
- breathe life into,
- breed,
- bring about,
- bring forth,
- bring into being,
- bring into existence,
- bring to effect,
- bring to life,
- bring to pass,
- call into being,
- call into existence,
- catch,
- catch on,
- cause,
- cerebrate,
- cogitate,
- cognize,
- coin,
- come with child,
- compass,
- comprehend,
- conceit,
- conceptualize,
- conclude,
- concoct,
- conjure up,
- consider,
- contrive,
- cook up,
- couch,
- couch in terms,
- create,
- daresay,
- deduce,
- deem,
- design,
- develop,
- devise,
- dig,
- digest,
- discern,
- discover,
- divine,
- do,
- dream,
- dream up,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- embody in words,
- endow with life,
- energize,
- engender,
- entertain ideas,
- envisage,
- envision,
- establish,
- esteem,
- estimate,
- evolve,
- excogitate,
- exercise the mind,
- expect,
- experience imaginatively,
- express,
- fabricate,
- fancy,
- fantasize,
- father,
- fathom,
- feature,
- feel,
- fictionalize,
- follow,
- form,
- form ideas,
- formularize,
- formulate,
- found,
- frame,
- gather,
- generate,
- gestate,
- get,
- get hold of,
- get the drift,
- get the idea,
- get the picture,
- give being to,
- give birth,
- give birth to,
- give expression to,
- give life to,
- give occasion to,
- give origin to,
- give rise to,
- give words to,
- grant,
- grasp,
- guess,
- hatch,
- have,
- have a hunch,
- have an idea,
- have an impression,
- have an inkling,
- have information about,
- have it taped,
- have knowledge of,
- have the idea,
- heed,
- hold,
- hold as,
- hypothesize,
- ideate,
- image,
- imagine,
- improvise,
- inaugurate,
- infer,
- inspirit,
- institute,
- intellectualize,
- invent,
- judge,
- ken,
- know,
- learn,
- let,
- let be,
- look upon as,
- maintain,
- make,
- make do with,
- make out,
- make up,
- mark,
- master,
- mature,
- meditate,
- mint,
- mold,
- note,
- notice,
- observe,
- occasion,
- opine,
- originate,
- paragraph,
- perceive,
- phrase,
- plan,
- plot,
- ponder,
- posit,
- possess,
- postulate,
- prefigure,
- prehend,
- present,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- presurmise,
- procreate,
- produce,
- provisionally accept,
- put,
- put in words,
- quicken,
- read,
- realize,
- reason,
- reckon,
- recognize,
- regard,
- remark,
- repute,
- rhetorize,
- ruminate,
- savvy,
- say,
- see,
- seize,
- seize the meaning,
- sense,
- set afloat,
- set down as,
- set on foot,
- set out,
- set up,
- shape,
- sire,
- spawn,
- speculate,
- state,
- strike out,
- style,
- suggest,
- superfetate,
- suppose,
- surmise,
- suspect,
- take,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take in,
- take it,
- take to be,
- think,
- think out,
- think up,
- trow,
- twig,
- understand,
- view as,
- vision,
- visualize,
- vitalize,
- vivify,
- ween,
- word,
- work,
- wot,
- wot of