conceivable

English

Etymology

From Middle English conceyvable, equivalent to conceive +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsiːvəbl̩/

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Adjective

conceivable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being conceived or imagined.

   Synonyms: imaginable, possible, credible, thinkable

   Antonyms: inconceivable, unconceivable

   • 2021 March 28, Naomi Thomas and Dakin Andone, “Conceivable that unvaccinated children could go to camp or playgrounds this summer, Fauci says”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     But asked by “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan whether parents can send their kids to summer camp without vaccines, Fauci said, “It is conceivable that that will be possible.”

Derived terms

• conceivability
• conceivableness
• conceivably
• inconceivable
• unconceivable

Translations

capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable

• Belarusian: магчы́мы (mahčýmy), мажлі́вы (mažlívy)
• Bulgarian: мислим (bg) (mislim), разбираем (bg) (razbiraem), възможен (bg) (văzmožen)
• Catalan: concebible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 想得到的, 可想像的

• Czech: myslitelný, možný (cs), představitelný (cs)
• Dutch: denkbaar (nl)
• Finnish: ajateltavissa oleva
• French: pensable (fr), imaginable (fr), concevable (fr)
• German: absehbar (de), begreiflich, denkbar (de), erdenklich (de), vorstellbar (de)
• Hungarian: elképzelhető (hu), felfogható (hu)
• Italian: concepibile (it), ideabile (it), immaginabile (it), pensabile (it)
• Latin: comprehēnsibilis, comprehēnsīvus m, cōgitābilis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tenkelig

  Nynorsk: tenkeleg, tenkjeleg

• Polish: wyobrażalny (pl)
• Portuguese: imaginável (pt), concebível
• Russian: мы́слимый (ru) (mýslimyj), постижи́мый (ru) (postižímyj), вероя́тный (ru) (verojátnyj), возмо́жный (ru) (vozmóžnyj), потенциа́льный (ru) (potɛnciálʹnyj)
• Sanskrit: मानस (sa) (mānasa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: замѝслив, по̀јмљив

  Latin: zamìsliv (sh), pòjmljiv (sh)

• Spanish: concebible, pensable (es), imaginable
• Swedish: tänkbar (sv)
• Turkish: akla uygun, düşünülebilir, makul (tr)
• Ukrainian: можли́вий (možlývyj)