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 

• PRECONCEIVED (adjective)

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Meaning:

(of an idea or opinion) formed beforehand; especially without evidence or through prejudice

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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)