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  • adjective Not dreamable; that cannot be dreamed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ dreamable

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Examples

  • Filament by filament, these secret and undreamable bonds were being established.

    Chapter XV 2010

  • No undreamable dreams about whether the headless, feetless torso hanging in the tree with a sign on it was her husband or Paul A; whether the bubbling-hot girls in the colored-school fire set by patriots included her daughter; whether a gang of whites invaded her daughter's private parts, soiled her daughter's thighs and threw her daughter out of the wagon.

    Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987

  • The arts, histories, philosophies and faiths and things once undreamable, of a hundred sentient races; and out of these, an ongoing renaissance which does not look as if it will ever die.

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

  • William's fingers touched those delicate fingers; the exquisite face smiled rosily up to him; undreamable sweetness beat rhythmically upon his glowing ears; his feet moved in a rhapsody of companionship with hers.

    Seventeen 1915

  • William's fingers touched those delicate fingers; the exquisite face smiled rosily up to him; undreamable sweetness beat rhythmically upon his glowing ears; his feet moved in a rhapsody of companionship with hers.

    Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

  • The sea does not even breathe; but it quivers in the terrible splendors of the noon with undreamable peacock radiances.

    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

  • Have had proof with my own eyes of the splendor of their empire, of their power, their wealth, of their dominance and orgulousness, of their superb armies, their undreamable commerce, their magnificent possessions, their own unrivalled physical beauty and force – and lo! now at last I find from a tiny island ringed with gray seas has sprung this race of kings.

    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

  • The air shone with a luminous clearness undreamable in coast countries, and at night the stars were huge and fierce: not the soft-gleaming palpitant planets of tropic nights, but keen and scintillant as swords ....

    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

  • Euphoric Tunisians have a chance to do what was undreamable three weeks ago: Build a democracy from the ground up.

    SFGate: Top News Stories By ELAINE GANLEY 2011

  • So Amina had found herself dreaming about an undreamable poet's face and waking with an unspeakable name on her lips.

    The Guardian World News 2011

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