Incredible

3 definitions found

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

  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.
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           Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you,
           that God should raise the dead?          --Acts xxvi.
                                                    8.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incredible
       adj : beyond belief or understanding; "at incredible speed"; "the
             book's plot is simply incredible" [syn: {unbelievable}]
             [ant: {credible}]

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

  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