conceptual
adjective
, -chü-əl, kän-, -chəl, -shwəl\
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, -shə- ; -chü-ˈa- , -shü- \
noun
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abstract, ideal, ideational, metaphysical, notional, theoretical (also theoretic)
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Some pieces are conceptual like Kate Kosek's Kewl Look, which features UV pigment on Plexiglass and has a Xerox photocopier aesthetic. — Darryl Ratcliff, Dallas News, "At a West Dallas art gallery, T-shirts are adorned, bedazzled, deconstructed and subverted," 22 July 2019 The mélange of post-minimal, conceptual, and outsider art, punctuated with happenings and performances, pointedly insulted good and even bad taste and resulted in addled discourse. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, "Harald Szeemann’s Revolutionary Curating," 15 July 2019 The Pre-Safe child seat is still just a concept, but one that can communicate in real time with an (also conceptual) Mercedes-Benz vehicle. — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, "Mercedes-Benz's Car Seat Prototype Will Make Children Safer," 21 May 2019 The three-story gallery features amazing conceptual and handcrafted artistry from African designers. — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, "Inside Nigeria Creative Week With Stylist Ade Samuel," 15 May 2019 But Eliasson does not see himself as a conceptual artist or an interventionist. — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, "Famed Danish artist premieres huge outdoor work at Chase Center," 24 Aug. 2019 Gaga certainly wasn’t the first to turn a VMAs performance into an event -- Madonna had wowed audiences with extravagant sets and conceptual performances across multiple decades, as had artists like Britney Spears, Michael Jackson and Eminem. — Stephen Daw, Billboard, "Don't Forget: Lady Gaga's '09 VMAs Performance Should Have Been the Night's Breakout Moment," 21 Aug. 2019 Landscape architect Christine Wilson of Copley Wolff Design Group created a conceptual design for the pocket park using community input, including through a site visit and a visioning workshop with nearby residents in the fall of 2018. — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, "New neighborhood park coming to Framingham," 7 Aug. 2019 Ten years later, their conceptual drawings became reality. — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, "Artists installed seesaws at the border so kids in the US and Mexico could play together," 30 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'conceptual.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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