| English verb: conceive of | |||
| 1. | conceive of (creation) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | ||
| Samples | Can you conceive of him as the president?. | ||
| Synonyms | envisage, ideate, imagine | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | create by mental act, create mentally | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | daydream, dream, envision, envision, fancy, fantasise, fantasise, fantasize, fantasize, fantasy, figure, foresee, image, picture, prefigure, project, see, stargaze, think, visualise, visualise, visualize, visualize, woolgather | ||