CONCEIVABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conceivable mean? 

• CONCEIVABLE (adjective)
  The adjective CONCEIVABLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being imagined

  Familiarity information: CONCEIVABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCEIVABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being imagined

Synonyms:

conceivable; imaginable

Context example:

that is one possible answer

Similar:

thinkable (capable of being conceived or imagined or considered)

Derivation:

conceivability; conceivableness (the state of being conceivable)

 Context examples 

“Is there not one alternative,” I suggested, grotesquely improbable, no doubt, but still just conceivable?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is not a conceivable bone either of a tapir or of any other creature known to zoology.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When this algorithm is combined with advances in HPV vaccination, emerging HPV detection technologies, and improvements in treatment, it is conceivable that cervical cancer could be brought under control, even in low-resource settings.

(AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer, National Institutes of Health)

Under no conceivable circumstances were the plans to be taken from the office.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is conceivable that the fellow might hold it back to see what bids come from this side before he tries his luck on the other.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Given the huge variety of bacteria in our intestines, if they can mimic a retinal protein, it is conceivable that they could also mimic other self-proteins in the body.

(In uveitis, bacteria in gut may instruct immune cells to attack the eye, NIH)

I passed three days in a luxury of wretchedness, torturing myself by putting every conceivable variety of discouraging construction on all that ever had taken place between Dora and me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the contrary, it is quite conceivable that I do not have to do anything.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

After supper I smoked, as on the last evening, and the Count stayed with me, chatting and asking questions on every conceivable subject, hour after hour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis,” said Holmes, smiling.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)