NOUN
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an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence
he did not even try to confirm his preconceptions
How To Use preconceived idea In A Sentence
- It's been my experience that life is so constructed that the event cannot and will not live up to preconceived idea I have about it.
- We all fear the unknown and we all have preconceived ideas of what other places are like. Times, Sunday Times
- You do not win games with preconceived ideas. Times, Sunday Times
- He questions authority and is skeptical of preconceived ideas, offering in their place an objective insight.
- I had no preconceived idea of how much interest it would attract.
- The hope is that face-to-face contact on this special day will help to blow away any preconceived ideas. The Sun
- We started from scratch with no preconceived ideas.
- It overrides all conception, all preconceived ideas of what you think you want or need.
- That insight alone has blown away some of my preconceived ideas. Times, Sunday Times
- It cannot be denied that our "think so's," "feel so's," impressions, prejudices and inherited or preconceived ideas may seem as infallible to us as any so-called axiomatic or intuitive truths. To Infidelity and Back
