incredible
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Incredible \In*cred"i*ble\, a. [L. incredibilis: cf. OF.
incredible. See {In-} not, and {Credible}.]
Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and
improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous.
[1913 Webster]
Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you,
that God should raise the dead? --Acts xxvi.
8.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "incredible":
a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, amazing, antic, appalling,
astonishing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, beguiling,
bewildering, beyond belief, bizarre, cockamamie, conspicuous,
crazy, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, egregious,
enigmatic, exceptional, extraordinary, extravagant, fabulous,
fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fictitious, flimsy, foolish,
formidable, grotesque, hard of belief, hard to believe,
hardly possible, high-flown, humongous, implausible, impossible,
improbable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, laughable, ludicrous,
marked, marvelous, miraculous, monstrous, more than doubtful,
mythical, nonsensical, not deserving belief, notable, noteworthy,
noticeable, of mark, open to doubt, open to suspicion, outlandish,
outrageous, outre, outstanding, passing belief, passing strange,
phenomenal, poppycockish, preposterous, problematic, prodigious,
puzzling, questionable, rare, remarkable, ridiculous, sensational,
signal, staggering belief, strange, striking, stupendous, superior,
suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, tremendous, unaccountable,
unbelievable, uncommon, unconvincing, unearthly, unexpected,
ungodly, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unlikely, unprecedented,
unpromising, unreal, unrealistic, unsubstantial, untenable,
unthinkable, unworthy of belief, weak, weird, wild, wonderful,
wondrous
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