Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inconceivable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inconceivable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Inconceivable.
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- adjective That cannot be
conceived ;unimaginable ;inconceivable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What is unconceivable to a conservative, is reality.
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Through the haze, he saw the full truth: the Doman Matriarchs of Maril were granted unconceivable power over men.
G'lder Curtis Hox 2011
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To him it's unconceivable that Alina could be in such deep denial over her sister's role in a terrorist movement.
A Conversation with Francesca Marciano, author of Casa Rossa 2010
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For in the communication of Motion by impulse, wherein as much Motion is lost to one Body, as is got to the other, which is the ordinariest case, we can have no other conception, but of the passing of Motion out of one Body into another; which, I think, is as obscure and unconceivable, as how our Minds move or stop our Bodies by Thought ¦.
Locke's Philosophy of Science Kochiras, Hylarie 2009
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IRVING ANOLIK, BASTARDI FAMILY ATTORNEY: It's unconceivable to me that the family would be unaware of the fact that this woman drank a lot and used marijuana.
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This world is the necessary effect of God's nature and a world different from this one is unconceivable.
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The Girl was greatly amaz'd hereat, it being to her an unconceivable Mystery.
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January 27, 2006 at 10: 40 AM unconceivable, unbelievable
Dog Gone Lies 2006
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The Girl was greatly amaz'd hereat, it being to her an unconceivable Mystery.
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For in duration we consider it as if this line of number were extended both ways — to an unconceivable, undeterminate, and infinite length; which is evident to any one that will but reflect on what consideration he hath of Eternity; which, I suppose, will find to be nothing else but the turning this infinity of number both ways, a parte ante, and a parte post, as they speak.
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