away, buried; covered, sheltered, screened, masked, dissembled; secret, clandestine, hugger-mugger, unrevealed, unexposed, Inf. hush-hush; unseen, unperceived, latent, delitescent; obscured, invisible, imperceptible, indiscernible, inconspicuous, unapparent.
concealment, n. 1. hiding, covering, sheltering, ensconcing; disguising, camouflaging, screening, enshrouding, veiling, masking; dissembling, cover-up, obscuring.
2. privacy, obscurity; inconspicuousness, impercepti-bility, invisibility; quiescence, dormancy, latency.
3. secretion, burial; camouflage, disguise; hiding, cover, shield, blind, ambush, ambuscade; hiding place, hideaway, covert, coverture, Inf. hide-out; shelter, retreat, refuge, mew.
concede, v. 1. acknowledge, recognize; admit, allow; yield, accede, agree, acquiesce, assent, accept, own, defer to, abide by, be persuaded, come over, come round.
2. deliver, grant, transfer, give, vouchsafe, bequeath, hand over, donate, tender, release, give up.
3. renounce, abandon, resign, surrender, relinquish, waive.
conceit, n. 1. self-esteem, self-importance, selfapprobation, self-admiration, self-love, self-worship, self-adulation; pride, vanity, vainglory, vaingloriousness, bovarism, egotism, Inf. ego trip, Inf. big head; self-praise, self-glorification, boastfulness, braggadocio, jactation, bluster, fanfaronade, gasconade; complacency, smugness, self-satisfaction, self-content.
2. thought, idea, notion, apprehension; concept, conception, conviction, sentiment, opinion; judgment, presumption, presupposition.
3. imagination, fancy, mind's eye.
4. fancy, whim, whimsy, caprice, fantasy; quirk, twist, kink, eccentricity, crotchet, maggot; daydream, dream, Inf. pipe dream, castle in the air, pie in the sky.
5. ornament, decoration, frill, filigree, flounce; gewgaw', gimcrack, Inf. doodad, Inf. fandangle.
conceited, adj. self-important, self-esteeming, self-admiring, self-worshiping, self-centered, egocentric, narcissistic, Sl. stuck or hung up on oneself; haughty, supercilious, disdainful, snobbish, Inf. stuck-up; proud, overproud, overweening, vain, vainglorious, egotistical, puffed-up, inflated, swollen, swell-headed, Inf. big-headed; smug, complacent, self-satisfied, selfcontented, pleased with oneself; cocky, bumptious, overbearing, overweening, Scot. vaunty; boastful, bragging, crowing, blustering,
conceivable, adj. 1. thinkable, imaginable, cogitable, supposable, fanciable, picturable, visualizable; knowable, understandable, comprehensible, apprehensible; cognizable, perceivable, cognoscible.
2. believable, credible, possible, tenable,
conceive, v. 1. think, opine, conjecture, surmise, fancy; speculate, suppose, assume, presume, Archaic. trow; reckon, perceive, apprehend, understand, comprehend, see; contrive, devise, cogitate, concoct, excogitate; plot, plan, compass, design, purpose; fashion, fabricate, hatch, invent, scheme; create, formulate, form, frame, draft; coin, mint, neologize, neoterize.
2. imagine, envision, think up, dream up, make up, conjure up, Inf. feature; dream, picture, envisage, ideate, image, visualize.
3. think, believe, hold, maintain, dare say; consider, regard, look upon; acknowledge, deem, recognize; judge, conclude, deduce, infer; posit, postulate, hypothesize, theorize.
4. beget, procreate, father, sire; generate, engender, propagate, reproduce; become impregnated, become pregnant, become fertilized, come with child.