imaginable
- adjective
- /ɪˈmædʒɪnəbl/
- Soon the worst thing imaginable happened.
- the worst imaginable
- every imaginable thing
- every imaginable kind
They do every genre imaginable, so it's an exciting place.
- They do every genre imaginable, so it's an exciting place.
- Sure, it was a hot Big Bang, but it wasn't the hottest imaginable state that we could have achieved.
- We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space.
- And the fact of the matter is Russia is in the weakest position imaginable to negotiate anything.
- But it didn't, and that's the worst moral condemnation imaginable.
- I tried to reach out to Virgil through every single channel imaginable.
- Or is it God who became a man who actually lived, suffered in the worst way imaginable for us?
- It's not even imaginable in many cases.
- We have every single cartel imaginable coming through that southern border.
- That's a sign as loud a sign as imaginable.
Examples
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This is the most beautiful garden imaginable, filled with colorful flowers and lush greenery.
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Consider the huge space of imaginable cultural entities, practices, and values.
Academic text (2001) -
It's not even imaginable in many cases.
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If no such ideal is imaginable, history could be at an end.
Academic text (1994) -
The consequences are almost imaginable in so many different ways.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness.
Fiction book (1991) -
He was the most gentle, decent man imaginable.
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The family toughed it out through everything imaginable: drought, flood, fire, the Great Depression, and loneliness.
Academic text (2001) -
His talent was so remarkable that he could create music that was beyond anything imaginable.
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In this story, the hero faces challenges more dangerous than anyone could have imagined.
Synonyms
Possible to imagine or believe
Something you can imagine happening
Able to be thought of or imagined
Antonyms
How Likely
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word imaginable comes from imagine, which comes from a root that means 'image' or a mental picture, and the ending -able means 'able to'. So, something imaginable is something you can 'put into a picture in your mind'.