Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Conceivable in the imagination.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being imagined or conceived.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being imagined; conceivable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Able to be imagined; conceivable

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective capable of being imagined

Etymologies

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imagine +‎ -able

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Examples

  • It was not yet daylight, we spent the entire day and evening traversing some of the most frightening terrain imaginable regaining our composure and impatient horses after midnight.

    Whitetail Are Tougher Than You Think 2009

  • Let's see ... pornography has been strictly and totally off limits for kids since forever, but letting them virtually hack other people, monsters, and aliens to bloody shreds in exquisite, life-like detail and with the most vicious weapons imaginable is (ho hum) tolerated, if not exactly condoned?

    High court accepts case over violent video games 2010

  • I had not expected such huge amazing markets in which everything imaginable is on display.

    A Letter from Alice Walker to Aung San Suu Kyi Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • It was not yet daylight, we spent the entire day and evening traversing some of the most frightening terrain imaginable regaining our composure and impatient horses after midnight.

    Whitetail Are Tougher Than You Think 2009

  • I note that every kind of sugar imaginable is available, including beet sugar.

    A Visit to Salzburg - Part 2. A Revisit Tour aka TBTAM 2009

  • I had not expected such huge amazing markets in which everything imaginable is on display.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • Similarly, McCain has proposed the most free-market-oriented health care reforms imaginable from a national party nominee during a contentious campaign.

    The Positive Case for John McCain 2008

  • Similarly, McCain has proposed the most free-market-oriented health care reforms imaginable from a national party nominee during a contentious campaign.

    Stromata Blog: 2008

  • Constructed in virtually every shape imaginable from the 1940s throughout the 1960s, they ranged in appearance from horror to science fiction characters.

    Robots and Donuts: The Art of Eric Joyner » Fanboy.com 2008

  • She has them in every pose imaginable from the 3 blind mice to hickory dickory dock.

    Beware The Oddball Gun 2007

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