Inconceivable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inconceivable
       adj : totally unlikely [syn: {impossible}, {out of the question},
             {unimaginable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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