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inconceivable

[ in-kuhn-see-vuh-buhl ]

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adjective

inconceivable

/ ˌɪnkənˈsiːvəbəl /

First recorded in 1625–35; in- ³ + conceivable

Or—just as inconceivable and absurd—sentencing entire generations of North Korean families to labor camps.

This spring, the protests of the last few days were inconceivable.

We have to shorten the distance between inevitable and inconceivable.

On Thursday, a nuclear exchange was, at least for most people, inconceivable.

Europe, we thought, was a place where national borders were finally set in stone and conventional war was simply inconceivable.

Don't you remember my telling you that Liszt has an inconceivable lightness, swiftness and smoothness of execution?

An inconceivable revolution in the thought of the English speaking peoples has taken place in respect to it.

It would have seemed inconceivable before, that a man of great wealth should give one-half of his income to the state.

It was thrown by a very dirty lamp, and disclosed a small court of unutterable meanness and inconceivable smells.

And from all sides in wild confusion flewThe dust and leaves, the branches and the stones,With hideous tumult, inconceivable.

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