unthinkable
adjective/ʌnˈθɪŋkəbl/
/ʌnˈθɪŋkəbl/
- impossible to imagine or accept synonym inconceivable
- This would have been considered unthinkable only a decade ago.
- it is unthinkable that… It was unthinkable that she could be dead.
- it is unthinkable (for somebody/something) (to do something) It's unthinkable for something like this to happen.
- unthinkable to somebody This course of action would have been unthinkable to the Russian generals.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- make something
- …
- absolutely
- completely
- literally
- …
- for
- to
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