Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not imaginable; not capable of being imagined, conceived, or thought of; inconceivable.
Wiktionary
- adj. unable to be imagined; inconceivable or mind-boggling; beyond belief
WordNet 3.0
- adj. totally unlikely
Etymologies
- From un- + imagine + -able. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In his TV speech Saturday, Prime Minister Sharaf said Egypt's citizens are "the root of all sovereignty and source of all authority" — a phrase unimaginable in Mubarak's days.”
“LOS ANGELES Reuters - Oprah Winfrey received an honorary Oscar for her charitable work on Saturday in what she called an unimaginable moment for a black woman who grew up poor in Mississippi and rose to the top of Hollywood stardom.”
“Ms. LOVELUCK: The history of the Atacama Desert is crowned with tragedy, endless strikes, hunger marches, deadly accidents, and miners murdered in unimaginable massacres, all of this as a result of a long list of labor, social and moral injustices against miners.”
“Isolated on a remote estate and imprisoned by relentless snow, the story of Ralph and Catherine unfolds in unimaginable ways.”
“I thought about bookmarking it for certain unimaginable future situations but realized I was fooling myself & wasting my time and effort.”
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“Chris, there are going to be very, very few illegals who are going to cooperate with us against the smuggling issues or any other issues related to the cartels and their families would be dead, after being tortured in unimaginable ways, long before they could get out of the country.”
“Mac: Chris, there are going to be very, very few illegals who are going to cooperate with us against the smuggling issues or any other issues related to the cartels and their families would be dead, after being tortured in unimaginable ways, long before they could get out of the country.”
“How many Chinese brutally murdered in unimaginable ways.”
“Looking at the magnitude of the economic crisis, this particular recession could have been much worse, hence increasing Black unemployment in unimaginable ways.”
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“I don't wish to diminish the significance of these attractions without them human life would pass in unimaginable monotony and, possibly, dispersion and defeat.”
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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