Conceivable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conceivable \Con*ceiv"a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. concevable.]
     Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood. "Any
     conceivable weight." --Bp. Wilkins.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           It is not conceivable that it should be indeed that


           very person whose shape and voice it assumed.
                                                    --Atterbury.
     -- {Con*ceiv"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Con*ceiv"a*bly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  conceivable
       adj 1: within the bounds of what may be conceived within the
              framework of nature; "a cure is still conceivable"
       2: possible to conceive or imagine; "that is one possible
          answer" [syn: {imaginable}, {possible}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "conceivable":
     apparent, appreciable, apprehensible, ascertainable, believable,
     cogitable, cognizable, colorable, comprehensible,
     conceivably possible, contingent, credible, discernible,
     discoverable, distinguishable, earthly, fanciable, fiduciary,
     graspable, humanly possible, imaginable, knowable, likely, mortal,
     perceptible, plausible, possible, potential, prehensible, probable,
     reasonable, recognizable, reliable, seizable, supposable, tenable,
     thinkable, trustworthy, trusty, understandable, unexceptionable,
     unimpeachable, unquestionable, worthy of faith