Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to imagine; inconceivable.
- adjective Not worth considering because of being socially unacceptable, too difficult, or too risky.
- adjective Abhorrent; monstrous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That cannot be made an object of thought; that cannot be thought; incogitable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Incapable of being
believed ;incredible . - adjective
Inconceivable orunimaginable ; extremelyimprobable in a way that goes againstcommon sense .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of being conceived or considered
Etymologies
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Examples
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The courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent new novel.
Blue Diary: Summary and book reviews of Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman. 2001
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The one option you need to regard as unthinkable is to stay with this person.
Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend reacts to breakup with threats Carolyn Hax 2010
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The unthinkable is the collapse of the banking system.
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The 1970s saw the dawn of the "personal computer" -- a phrase unthinkable a mere decade earlier, when computers had shrunk from boxcar-sized to merely pickup-truck-sized ... but were not expected to shrink much more.
Chris Weigant: From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40 2010
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The 1970s saw the dawn of the "personal computer" -- a phrase unthinkable a mere decade earlier, when computers had shrunk from boxcar-sized to merely pickup-truck-sized ... but were not expected to shrink much more.
From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40 2010
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The 1970s saw the dawn of the "personal computer" -- a phrase unthinkable a mere decade earlier, when computers had shrunk from boxcar-sized to merely pickup-truck-sized... but were not expected to shrink much more.
Chris Weigant: From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40 Chris Weigant 2010
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In the event you dont know what the unthinkable is .... it is her getting her butt kicked as is happening now. pretty soon this BS will be over and the country can get on with electing our next president.
Full Michigan delegation with half-vote to be seated by Dems 2008
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The 1970s saw the dawn of the "personal computer" -- a phrase unthinkable a mere decade earlier, when computers had shrunk from boxcar-sized to merely pickup-truck-sized ... but were not expected to shrink much more.
Chris Weigant: From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40 2009
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Just as unthinkable is reconstruction in a bowl below sea level and below the level of the river and lake in an area subject to increasingly frequent hurricanes on terrain slowly sinking into the Gulf of Mexico.
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The unthinkable is placed inside and is made, as the unthinkable,
Introduction 2005
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