Word Meanings - CONCEPTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Apt to conceive; fruitful. Shak.

CONCEIVER
One who conceives.
CONCEIVE
fr. L. oncipere to take, to conceive; con- + capere to seize or take. 1. To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of. She hath also conceived a son in her old age. Luke i. 36. 2. To form in the mind; to
FRUITFUL
Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife. -- Fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fruit"ful*ness, n. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish
UNFRUITFUL
Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
OVERFRUITFUL
Too fruitful.
MISCONCEIVE
To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend. Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. Hooker. Syn. -- To misapprehend; misunderstand; mistake.
FORECONCEIVE
To preconceive; to imagine beforehand. Bacon.
PRECONCEIVE
To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of. In a dead plain the way seemeth the longer, because the eye hath preconceived it shorter than the truth. Bacon.
MISCONCEIVER
One who misconceives.