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inconceivable

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1. inconceivable - Adjective

2. inconceivable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. André Maurois

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. Aaron Copland

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. Andrea Dworkin

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock. F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government. James Jesus Angleton

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