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CONCEIVABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being imagined
Example:
that is one possible answer
Synonyms:
conceivable; imaginable
Classified under:
Similar:
thinkable (capable of being conceived or imagined or considered)
Derivation:
conceivability; conceivableness (the state of being conceivable)
Context examples:
It was perfect art. Form triumphed over substance, if triumph it could be called where the last conceivable atom of substance had found expression in so perfect construction as to make Martin's head swim with delight, to put passionate tears into his eyes, and to send chills creeping up and down his back.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It is conceivable that you may even have read some account of the matter.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was equally conceivable that he had shot her and then himself, or that she had been the criminal, for the revolver lay upon the floor midway between them.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The county police are utterly at fault, said he, but perhaps your wider experience has suggested some conceivable explanation.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That Mr. W. has been for years deluded and plundered, in every conceivable manner, to the pecuniary aggrandisement of the avaricious, false, and grasping—HEEP.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was hardly conceivable.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These walls are thick, and it is conceivable that his shriek, if he had time to utter one, was unheard.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The only conceivable escape for him lay in silencing my tongue.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were many grave objections to this theory, but it was conceivable.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, it is just conceivable that a statesman might find himself in a position where he was not sorry to have such a document accidentally destroyed.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
