imaginable
[ih-maj-uh-nuh-buh l]
- capable of being imagined or conceived.
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Origin of imaginable
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Examples from the Web for imaginable
Contemporary Examples
No imaginable circumstance could make a reasonable Ford-owner think, “Damn, I should have bought that Ferrari.”
He once begged the legislature for every imaginable kind of tax hike— without any coercion.
They have every imaginable spice and all the hard-to-find ingredients.
Historical Examples
The boy contracted every fever, every imaginable malady, one after the other.
Therese RaquinEmile Zola
Its blaze illumined one of the wildest of imaginable scenes.
King PhilipJohn S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
They've made preparations to fight any imaginable contagion you could drop on them.
Pariah PlanetMurray Leinster
But Esther seemed of all imaginable persons the least likely to deliver a blow of any sort.
The PrisonerAlice Brown
Like nearly all other imaginable things, what you state is not impossible.
Word Origin and History for imaginable
adj.
late 14c., ymaginable, from Old French imaginable and directly from Late Latin imaginabilis, from Latin imaginari (see imagine). Related: Imaginably.
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