Ill-conceived

Definition: Ill-conceived

Ill-conceived

Adjective

1. Poorly conceived or thought out; "an ill-conceived plan to take over the company".

Modern Usage: Ill-conceived

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I am grateful, you know, for the ill-conceived and high-handed attempt to defend my honor although I didn't want you to. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)
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Commercial Usage: Ill-conceived

Domain	Title
Books	The Rice portrait of Jane Austen : the ill-conceived controversy (reference) (more book examples)

Music	The Ill-Conceived P.D.Q. Bach Anthology (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Ill-conceived

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Afghanistan	Decrees abolishing usury, forcing changes in marriage customs, and pushing through an ill-conceived land reform were particularly misunderstood virtually all Afghans. (references)
Trade	Burma	Over the past several years, including this year, the government has imposed and then rescinded a series of restrictive and sometimes ill-conceived trade policies, making regulatory policy unpredictable. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Ill-conceived

"Ill-conceived" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-conceived" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Ill-conceived

Language		Translations for "ill-conceived"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		rosszul kitervelt. (various references)

Italian		avventato,sconsiderato. (various references)

Pig Latin		ill-conceiveday.(various references)

Portuguese		grosseiro (a.b.c., abc, awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earwax, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hogmanay, home-made, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Ill-conceived

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-i-l-l-n-o-v"
	-3 letters: celloidin, conceived, covelline, decillion.
	-4 letters: cleidoic, coincide, colicine, conceive, indocile, invoiced, licenced, nielloed, violence.
	-5 letters: cineole, codeine, codicil, colicin, colleen, collide, collied, concede, decline, devoice, ecocide, eidolic, eloined, evinced, icicled, invoice, licence, livened, novelle, olivine, ovicide, vidicon, villein.
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