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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
preconceived
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a preconceived notion (=an idea that you have before you have enough knowledge or experience)
▪ The police were accused of twisting the evidence to meet their preconceived notion of his guilt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
idea
▪ The reader must judge from this account, written by some one who approached his subject with no preconceived ideas either way.
▪ For him, the facts based on them were treated as facts, and not related to some preconceived idea ....
▪ People and even nations are often pigeon-holed according to people's preconceived ideas, which are of course seldom accurate.
▪ Many guests visit restaurants with preconceived ideas of what they should eat.
▪ It overrides all conception, all preconceived ideas of what you think you want or need.
▪ Some people tend to have preconceived ideas about us because we're young and female.
▪ Their strengths are rather in clearing the ground of preconceived ideas about the arts, and putting new points of view.
▪ There was no preconceived idea of what percentage any such opening might involve.
notion
▪ I know it is idiotically wrong to have preconceived notions about looks.
▪ I was not about to confront her preconceived notions head-on.
▪ The content and form of social and economic formations along with institutions can not be properly investigated by projecting preconceived notions.
▪ Finding unit costs which support preconceived notions is easy but ultimately useless.
▪ Judging the awards is a fascinating experience which has a refreshing tendency to challenge preconceived notions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any preconceived image she had of James and Elaine Morris was instantly forgotten when they walked towards her.
▪ For him, the facts based on them were treated as facts, and not related to some preconceived idea ....
▪ I know it is idiotically wrong to have preconceived notions about looks.
▪ I was not about to confront her preconceived notions head-on.
▪ The content and form of social and economic formations along with institutions can not be properly investigated by projecting preconceived notions.
▪ The other type of offence involved in effect a preconceived and premeditated pitched battle, often accompanied by the use of weapons.
▪ The reader must judge from this account, written by some one who approached his subject with no preconceived ideas either way.
▪ Those who come to it fresh, without preconceived ideas of how a spreadsheet works, will find it a dream.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preconceived

Preconceive \Pre`con*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Preconceived; p. pr. & vb. n. Preconceiving.] 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.

Wiktionary
preconceived
  1. (context of an opinion or notion English) conceive beforehand: formed ahead of time. v

  2. (en-past of: preconceive)

WordNet
preconceived

adj. (of an idea or opinion) formed beforehand; especially without evidence or through prejudice; "certain preconceived notions"

Usage examples of "preconceived".

Leaving aside the preconceived ideas of most historians and their pronounced predilection for the dramatic aspects of history, we see that the very documents they habitually peruse are such as to exaggerate the part of human life given to struggles and to underrate its peaceful moods.

Entering into a red sector with preconceived notions was just about the worst of the cardinal sins a detective could commit.

The water foamed as it fell in rapids and cataracts, which confirmed the doctor in his preconceived ideas on the subject.

My preconceived notions of Dutiful, my possessive idealizations of what my natural son would be like, stood between me and the frail threads of the Skill-link I sought to untangle.

Just as in the case of atomism, they seemed to prove the validity of the preconceived idea of the current.

Investigators and citizens in the community had a preconceived idea of what Jack the Ripper would look like.

I had no preconceived idea of the sensations that would mark the drug's initial effect, since these were said to vary prodigiously with the temperament of the users.

Or did you and your team work from a preconceived notion that Kharzh’.

Some emotionslike the Bolo, itselfdefied all attempts to fit them into a preconceived notion of reality.

They'll continue to overlook the import of parapsychology, I'm afraid, until they're able--as Huxley put it--'to sit down before fact as a little child--be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses nature leads.

The pair of them stood there, looking tremendously uncomfortable, each silently reinforcing the other's preconceived notion that this 'do-it-yourself wedding' (as Phil referred to it) was going to be (as Stratton kept predicting) 'an incredible horror show.

Copperfield, and I had to lay claim to myself, and they had to divest themselves of a preconceived opinion that Traddles was Mr.

The day will come when this will be given as a curious illustration of the blindness of preconceived opinion.

In the meantime, the preconceived opinion he formed of Lisa Knowles was not a very good one.

Elicas had no preconceived opinion, but instinctively liked the blond archer.