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unthinkable

adjectifnomattesté dans les dialogues

  • //ʌnˈθɪŋkəbəl//

That cannot be believed.

adjectif

  1. 1

    That cannot be believed.

    Near-synonyms: unbelievable, incredible, inconceivable

  2. 2

    Inconceivable or unimaginable; extremely improbable in a way that goes against common sense.

    Near-synonyms: inconceivable, imponderable

    Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development - Lewis Mumford

    With 16 minutes left on the clock and the tension climbing through the roof, Trinh-Duc tried his luck with a penalty from just inside halfway only to push it wide, but the unthinkable now seemed a real possibility.

    The ruling also comes amid calls from an opposition party for a review of the royal insult law, which would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

  3. 3

    Extremely improper; extremely at odds with norms of expected behavior.

    Near-synonyms: taboo, unspeakable, unutterable, inconceivable

    I want you to know that P.A.C. will pay for a child psychiatrist to come in and testify on behalf of the child so that the homosexual father will not be able to have that little girl overnight and weekends to expose her to what is unthinkable.

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Étymologie

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-West Germanic *þankijan Old English þenċan Middle English thinken English think Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English unthinkable From un- + think + -able.

nom

  1. 1

    Something, or various things collectively, that one dare not think about, dare not do, or dare not think about doing.

    Near-synonym: unspeakable

    do the unthinkable

    did the unthinkable

Formes

pluriel
unthinkables
comparatif
more unthinkable
superlatif
most unthinkable
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