conceptual

Borrowed from Medieval Latin conceptuālis, from Latin conceptus, perfect passive participle of concipiō (“take hold of; conceive”); see concept and -al.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛptjʊəl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛpt͡ʃuəl/

conceptual (comparative more conceptual, superlative most conceptual)

1. Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:

     The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.

2. Existing only in the imagination.

   We defined a conceptual model before designing the real thing.

3. Of or relating to conceptualism.

• (of a concept): ideal, notional
• (imaginary): ideal, imaginary, notional

• concept
• conceptualism

• German: konzeptuell

• conceptual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• conceptual in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kon.səp.tuˈal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun.səp.tuˈal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon.sep.tuˈal/
• Rhymes: -al

conceptual (masculine and feminine plural conceptuals)

1. conceptual

• conceptualisme
• conceptualista
• conceptualitzar

• concepte

• “conceptual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

conceptual m or f (plural conceptuais) (Brazilian spelling, European spelling)

1. Alternative form of concetual (“conceptual”)

• conceptualmente

From French conceptuel.

conceptual m or n (feminine singular conceptuală, masculine plural conceptuali, feminine and neuter plural conceptuale)

1. conceptual

From Latin conceptualis, from conceptus.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /konθebˈtwal/ [kõn̟.θeβ̞ˈt̪wal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /konsebˈtwal/ [kõn.seβ̞ˈt̪wal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: con‧cep‧tual

conceptual (plural conceptuales)

1. conceptual

• conceptualismo
• conceptualista
• conceptualizar
• conceptualmente

• concepto

• “conceptual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014