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Meanings of inconceivable in English

Totally unlikely.

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Incapable of being conceived or imagined.

Usage of inconceivable in English
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Over twelve years, this war, this brutally inconceivable violence has raged on.
Feminist dot com
2
That kind of internal crisis would have been inconceivable in the North.
World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
3
The consents were granted without public notification, which Greenpeace said was inconceivable.
Radio NZ
4
A hundred or a million years of hap­piness is inconceivable to us.
Heaven
5
Getting back out from this position with an injured partner was inconceivable.
Climbing Magazine
6
The thing seems inconceivable, and still less practicable; but it is not.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
7
These new ones were about 30 solar masses each-notinconceivable, but odd.
Wired
8
The thought of danger was inconceivable in this remote and peaceful spot.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
9
Independence of personal action, in the Western sense, is still almost inconceivable.
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
10
It is inconceivable that you could do this without disastrous side effects.
The Guardian
11
It would seem inconceivable that in the car are cases of liquor.
The new yorker
12
An almost inconceivable multitude, and yet probably far below the actual amount.
Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
13
They were wedged away some of them in the most inconceivable places.
South Sea Tales
14
Portraits of Poppy on the walls, in every conceivable and inconceivable attitude.
The Divine Fire
15
It is inconceivable that this discredited over-centralised artificial pay policy can continue.
The Guardian
16
A sudden origin, in a natural way, of numerous adaptations is inconceivable.
Darwin and Modern Science
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