misconceive
/ˌmɪskənˈsiːv/
misconceive verb: to misunderstand.
Verb
misconceive (third-person singular simple present misconceives, present participle misconceiving, simple past and past participle misconceived)
- To misunderstand.
- Nay, misconceive me not, madam, when I say I have had a gen'rous and a faithful passion, which you had never favoured, but through revenge and policy.1694, William Congreve, The Double-Dealer
- To judge or plan badly, typically on the basis of faulty misunderstanding.
- HS2 has never had that. It was missold, misnamed and misconceived. It was promoted as a piece of engineering, rather than as a vital part of the railway.2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 45
misconceive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
misconceive in Hindi
- to misconceive
- ग़लत समझना ġalat samajhnā
misconceive in Tamil
- தவறாக புரிதல்
misconceive in Urdu
- to misconceive
- غلط سمجھنا ġalat samajhnā
misconceive in Bengali
- ভুল ধারণা করা, ভুলভাবে বোঝা
More languagesFewer languages
- misconceive in Malayalam
- തെറ്റിദ്ധരിക്കുക, മറിച്ചു മനസ്സിലാക്കുക, തെറ്റായി ഗ്രഹിക്കുക, അന്യഥാഗ്രഹിക്കുക
- misconceive in Kannada
- ತಪ್ಪುತಿಳಿ
Forms of misconceive
| third-person singular present | misconceives |
|---|---|
| present participle | misconceiving |
| past participle | misconceived |
| past | misconceived |
Origin of misconceive
From Middle English misconceiven, equivalent to mis- + conceive.
Words formed from misconceive
Questions about misconceive
- What does misconceive mean?
- Misconceive means to misunderstand.
- What is misconceive in Hindi?
- Misconceive in Hindi is ग़लत समझना (ġalat samajhnā). See Misconceive meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is misconceive?
- Misconceive is a verb.
- How do you pronounce misconceive?
- Misconceive is pronounced /ˌmɪskənˈsiːv/ (US).
- What is the past tense of misconceive?
- The past tense of misconceive is misconceived.
Words near misconceive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: misconceive (page history and authors); ग़लत समझना (Hindi) (page history and authors); misconceive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); غلط سمجھنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); misconceive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misconceive (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); misconceive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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