conceivable

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conceivable - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

conceivable - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  conceivable
      adj 1: capable of being imagined; "that is one possible answer"
             [syn: conceivable, imaginable]

conceivable - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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