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Synonyms for unthinkable
ʌnˈθɪŋ kə bəlun·think·able
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Princeton's WordNet
unthinkableadjective
incapable of being conceived or considered
Antonyms:
conceivable, presumable, imaginable, surmisable, ponderable, supposable, thinkable, cogitable
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "unthinkable":
inconceivable, unimaginable, incomprehensible, impossible, incredible, unbelievable
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4446 | impossible | |
#5642 | incredible | |
#15392 | unbelievable | |
#37656 | unthinkable | |
#39077 | incomprehensible | |
#44699 | inconceivable | |
#46658 | unimaginable |
How to use unthinkable in a sentence?
I was out of the country traveling to meet my daughters for a birthday celebration when I got the devastating news, the loss of a child is an unthinkable tragedy and my heart goes out to this young man's family and friends.
You don't expect to leave work and not come home -- it's unthinkable, it's unbearable, we need to take gun safety on film sets more seriously.
James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964:
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
Italian Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti:
Libya can be stabilized by local forces. A military intervention and occupation of the country (by Western forces) would be unthinkable.
If my parents were alive today, they both died young, it would have been incomprehensible to them -- incomprehensible -- that their son, coming from where we came from( would) become a United States senator or mayor, from Burlington, or candidate for president of the United States, it would have been unthinkable.
Translations for unthinkable
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- impensableCatalan, Valencian
- undenkbar, unvorstellbarGerman
- impensableSpanish
- käsittämätönFinnish
- impensable, inconcevable, inimaginable, incroyableFrench
- hihetetlen, elképzelhetetlenHungarian
- impensabileItalian
- ondenkbaarDutch
- niewiarygodnePolish
- negândibil, neconcepibil, inimaginabil, incredibil, imposibil, de neimaginat, neimaginabil, de neconceputRomanian
- немыслимыйRussian
- otänkbarSwedish
- kavranılamaz, düşünülemezTurkish
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