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imaginably

imaginably

4.5
In a way you can imagine
  • adverb
  • /ɪˈmædʒɪnəbli/
translation icon : imaginablemente
  • They are imaginably on the brink of discovering a new planet in our solar system.

Examples

  • In effect, the news puts a period to this pair's prevailingly happy, though certainly not carefree, life; there cannot imaginably be further delight in it, of the sort that they have been amply blessed with through their years together.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • The artist's work was imaginably inspired by the beauty of nature.

  • B is not a threat to us because B does not exist either; it could not imaginably exist.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • We do not exist; we could not imaginably exist.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • We would never imaginably pull ourselves out of the Mackalls.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • You do that imaginably augmented awareness.

  • Couldn't imaginably exist.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • The new order has not stabilized and, imaginably, can revert back to one more closely related to the image of world politics depicted by structural realism rather than Wilsonian idealism.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The project was imaginably more successful than anyone could have hoped.

Synonyms

potentially
vsimaginably
479 3.4

Might happen later but is not yet real

focuses on being imaginable rather than on becoming actual
conceivably
vsimaginably
41 5.3

Something you can imagine or think may happen

has identical meaning but is a different adverb form

Antonyms

8 6.8

To a degree that is very hard to believe

How Possible

certainly
1.0
possibly
1.0
imaginably
4.5
impossibly
31 5.7

Surface Forms

imaginably positive

Morphology

imaginably = imaginable (transparent) = imagine + able + ly

Formed regularly from 'imaginable' with the productive adverbial suffix '-ly', preserving the sense 'in a way that can be imagined'.

Etymology

Imaginably comes from the word imagine ('to form a picture in your mind') and the ending -ably ('able to do something'). So it means 'possible to imagine' or 'that you can think of', which is why we use it to say something could possibly be true.