thinkable
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈθɪŋkəbl/
:
pensable
- For people in rural areas, part-time work is not even thinkable.
- become thinkable
- even thinkable
For these kinds of conflicts to be solved is for the unthinkable to become thinkable.
- For these kinds of conflicts to be solved is for the unthinkable to become thinkable.
- What you want is that it's not a thinkable thought.
- And these are both seemingly equally, you know, conceivable, thinkable.
- You know, like that boy TJ will carom in that spa in that Whirlpool and it's probably thinkable if he touches me, is the same thing going to happen to me?
Examples
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For non-Jewish Danes, the rescue story made the Jews thinkable; it resolved the contradiction between homogeneity and ethnic diversity in Denmark by making the Jews an emblem of Danish tolerance.
Academic text (1998) -
We tried every watering method thinkable.
Academic text (1996) -
People were saying and doing things that were not thinkable at the time.
Blog text (18) -
And here is the point: according to the underground man, suffering is not even thinkable in the Crystal Palace.
Academic text (1995) -
Taiwan, Singapore, and Australia, to take just three examples, can do far more against potential opponents than would have been thinkable 30 years ago.
Academic text (1996) -
The longer he remains a player, the more thinkable his ascension to greater heights becomes.
Academic text (2011) -
However, one thing was clear: what had been unthinkable before Sept. 11 suddenly became thinkable.
Academic text (2001) -
In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be 'desert'), absolutely anything becomes thinkable and may consequently happen.
Academic text (1994) -
Before the climate summit, many solutions that seemed impossible became thinkable.
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After years of research, a cure for the disease is now thinkable for scientists.
Synonyms
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1.0
Able to happen or be achieved
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3.6
Possible to think of in your mind
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4.6
Possible to imagine or believe
Able to be thought of or imagined
People can imagine it as real or true
Antonyms
How Conceivable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thinkable is simply think + -able, where -able means 'able to be'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of words like readable or believable: thinkable means 'able to be thought' or 'imagined', so it describes something you can picture or see as possible.