unthinkable

Adjective

Meaning

incapable of being conceived or considered

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

fantastic amazing untold unique rare impossible unlikely remarkable uncommon singular extraordinary exceptional absurd incredible doubtful
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Antonyms

thinkable bonnie possible likely comely bonny
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Phrases with the word

more unthinkable be unthinkable

Examples

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. André Gide

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce. Ludwig van Beethoven

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable – and this is why we are the enemies of the State. Mikhail Bakunin

Physical love is unthinkable without violence. Milan Kundera

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought.... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. Clarice Lispector

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H. L. Mencken

Close letter words and terms

unthing unthink unthinkability unthinkableness unthinkably unthinker