imaginable
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- adjective
- /ɪˈmædʒɪnəbl/
:
imaginable
- 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
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Possible to imagine or believe
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Something you can imagine happening
Able to be thought of or imagined
Antonyms
How Likely
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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'.