Meaning of INCONCEIVABLE
| Pronunciation: | | `inkun'seevubul
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[adj] totally unlikely |
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INCONCEIVABLE is a 13 letter word that starts with I. |
| | Synonyms: | | impossible, out of the question, unimaginable, unthinkable |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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.
The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any
subject to possess it. --A. Tucker.
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