Meanings
adjectiveconceivable (not comparable)
- not comparableCapable of being conceived or imagined.
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.”
2021 March 28, Naomi Thomas and Dakin Andone, “Conceivable that unvaccinated children could go to camp or playgrounds this summer, Fauci says”, in CNNSynonyms: imaginable, possible, credible, thinkable · Antonyms: inconceivable, unconceivable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCapable of being conceived or imagined.
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adjectivecapable of being imagined
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Origin
- Middle Englishconceyvable
- Englishconceivable
From Middle English conceyvable, equivalent to conceive + -able.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian мислим, разбираем
- мислим (mislim)capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- разбираем (razbiraem)capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- възможен (văzmožen)capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Catalan concebible
- concebiblecapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Chinese Mandarin 想得到的, 可想像的
- 想得到的capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- 可想像的capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Czech myslitelný, možný
- myslitelnýcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- možnýcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- představitelnýcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Dutch denkbaar
- denkbaarcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Finnish ajateltavissa oleva
- ajateltavissa olevacapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
French pensable, imaginable
- pensablecapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- imaginablecapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- concevablecapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
German absehbar, begreiflich
- absehbarcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- begreiflichcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- denkbarcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- erdenklichcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- vorstellbarcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Hungarian elképzelhető, felfogható
- elképzelhetőcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- felfoghatócapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Italian concepibile, ideabile
- concepibilecapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- ideabilecapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- immaginabilecapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- pensabilecapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Latin comprehēnsibilis, comprehēnsīvus
- comprehēnsibiliscapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- comprehēnsīvuscapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- cōgitābiliscapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Norwegian Bokmål tenkelig
- tenkeligcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Polish wyobrażalny
- wyobrażalnycapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Portuguese imaginável, concebível
- imaginávelcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- concebívelcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Russian мы́слимый, постижи́мый
- мы́слимый (mýslimyj)capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- постижи́мый (postižímyj)capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- вероя́тный (verojátnyj)capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- возмо́жный (vozmóžnyj)capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- потенциа́льный (potɛnciálʹnyj)capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Spanish concebible, pensable
- concebiblecapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- pensablecapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- imaginablecapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Swedish tänkbar
- tänkbarcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Turkish akla uygun, düşünülebilir
- akla uyguncapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- düşünülebilircapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
- makulcapable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
Ukrainian можли́вий
- можли́вий (možlývyj)capable of being conceived or imagined; possible; credible; thinkable
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APA
conceivable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conceivable
MLA
“conceivable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conceivable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “conceivable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conceivable.
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