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PRECONCEIVED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does preconceived mean?
• PRECONCEIVED (adjective)
The adjective PRECONCEIVED has 1 sense:
1. (of an idea or opinion) formed beforehand; especially without evidence or through prejudice
Familiarity information: PRECONCEIVED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of an idea or opinion) formed beforehand; especially without evidence or through prejudice
Classified under:
Participial adjectives
Context example:
certain preconceived notions
Participle:
conceive (have the idea for)
Context examples
Jane's alertness in moving, proved her as ready as her aunt had preconceived.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Traddles had to indicate that I was Mr. Copperfield, and I had to lay claim to myself, and they had to divest themselves of a preconceived opinion that Traddles was Mr. Copperfield, and altogether we were in a nice condition.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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