inconceivable

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CRAMER: -- inconceivable, and there's no way Obama wants to tarnish himself -- some would say further tarnish himself -- by getting into a big fistfight with the Pentagon.

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  1. adjective Impossible to comprehend or grasp fully: inconceivable folly; an inconceivable disaster.
  2. adjective So unlikely or surprising as to have been thought impossible; unbelievable: an inconceivable victory against all odds.

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  • That many of the migrants will be able to find remunerative work in their own villages is inconceivable -- plots of farmable land are far too tiny and, despite a Chinese governmental stimulus package, there are as yet few other sources of income. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
  • It's simply inconceivable, according to the rules of our discourse, that decriminalizing drugs could make a country's drug problem better rather than worse. —  CampusProgress.org
  • CRAMER: -- inconceivable, and there's no way Obama wants to tarnish himself -- some would say further tarnish himself -- by getting into a big fistfight with the Pentagon. —  Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire
  • It doesn't seem inconceivable, then, that some other person's body might react to the specific "smell" of fear. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Even more inconceivable is the fact that the same thing happened in 2007, when the two anglers drawn for boats proved to be entrants in the last event of that year's series, the Everett Coho Derby. —  HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
 

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  1. = French inconcevable = Spanish inconcebible = Portuguese inconcebivel = Italian inconcepibile; as in- + conceivable.
 

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