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unthinkable(dictionary)

unthinkable (iou)



unthinkable adjective & noun. LME.
[from UN-1 + THINK verb2 + -ABLE.]
A. adjective. Unable to be imagined or grasped by the mind; colloq. highly unlikely or undesirable. LME.
Westminster Gazette Cool glades of unthinkable beauty. C. Tomalin Behaviour which would have been unthinkable a generation earlier.
b. absol. as noun. That which is unthinkable; an unthinkable thing. L19.
B. Duffy Wittgenstein did the unthinkable when he declined the emperor's offer to ennoble the Wittgenstein family.
unthinka'bility noun M19.
unthinkableness noun E20.
unthinkably adverb E16.