Unthinkable Definition

ŭn-thĭngkə-bəl
adjective
Beyond the ability to understand or imagine; inconceivable.
Webster's New World
Not worth considering because of being socially unacceptable, too difficult, or too risky.
Raising taxes was politically unthinkable.
American Heritage
So extreme, foul, etc. as to be unfit to be imagined or considered.
Unthinkable war crimes.
Webster's New World
Abhorrent; monstrous.
Unthinkable brutality.
American Heritage

Incapable of being believed; incredible.

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Unthinkable Sentence Examples

  • The relation between cause and effect is unthinkable.

  • Life without Princess Mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to him.

  • His father's most trusted advisor had done the unthinkable, and yet, Ne'Rin had borne all the sacrifices that A'Ran had by coming with him.

  • For if consciousness be looked upon as simply an epiphenomenon, an unaccountable appearance accompanying the succession of material changes, the possibility either of active interference by human volition at any point within the physical series or of any controlling or directing efficacy of consciousness over the whole set of material changes which accompany its activity becomes unthinkable.

  • It is quite unthinkable - yet it must happen.

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