inconceivable
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inconceivable \In`con*ceiv"a*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not +
conceivable: cf. F. inconcevable.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
It is inconceivable to me that a spiritual substance
should represent an extended figure. --Locke.
-- {In`con*ceiv"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {In`con*ceiv"a*bly}, adv.
[1913 Webster]
The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any
subject to possess it. --A. Tucker.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "inconceivable":
a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, antic, barred, beguiling,
bewildering, beyond belief, closed-out, contrary to reason,
doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, enigmatic, exceptional,
excluded, extraordinary, fabulous, fanciful, fantastic,
fascinating, hard of belief, hard to believe, hopeless,
implausible, impossible, incomprehensible, incredible,
logically impossible, marvelous, mind-boggling, miraculous,
not deserving belief, not possible, open to doubt,
open to suspicion, outlandish, overwhelming, oxymoronic,
paradoxical, passing belief, passing strange, phenomenal,
preposterous, problematic, prodigious, prohibited, puzzling,
questionable, rare, remarkable, ridiculous, ruled-out,
self-contradictory, sensational, staggering, staggering belief,
strange, striking, stupendous, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick,
thin, unaccountable, unbelievable, unconvincing, unearthly,
unexpected, ungodly, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unknowable,
unprecedented, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, weak, wonderful,
wondrous
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