(a.) Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be faced with not being able to stay with or even be near their baby is inconceivable."
(2) If these workers inhaled a carcinogenic substance partly excreted in the urine, an increased incidence of respiratory and bladder cancers would not be inconceivable.
(3) It is not necessarily inconceivable for the issue to be back on the table at some later stage and even to win some form of Commons backing.
(4) It was "inconceivable" that one rotten apple was at the heart of it all.
(5) Since IAPP is co-secreted with insulin, it is not inconceivable, that in the freely fed mouse, IAPP may act to amplify the blood glucose lowering effect of insulin through a direct suppression of glucagon secretion via the islet microcirculation.
(6) The ministry of labour told Human Rights Watch in 2012 that it was "inconceivable" that forced labour existed in Qatar, despite compelling evidence to the contrary.
(7) With regard to drugs, intensive care medicine confronts the surgeon with an inconceivable complex of interactions, side effects and dose adaptations.
(8) Listening to Fleet Foxes, it seemed inconceivable that anyone had ever mocked the acoustic and the bucolic.
(9) "I think it would now be inconceivable for the government to back down after promising so much only a couple of months ago."
(10) According to the diagnosis of preoedipal disturbances it should be worked out, that the test-results are not inconceivable formality and uncomprehension.
(11) 2008: Lord Bruce-Lockhart, chair of English Heritage, says "it is inconceivable that the inadequacies of the site should be allowed to continue any longer".
(12) The Labour leader has a catalogue of reasons why he thinks it inconceivable that the Tories will turn out to be the largest party in 2015, including organisation, psephology, his principles and the fact that he believes the country's values are social democratic.
(13) "It is inconceivable how, from $100m of revenue that just changes classification, you could possibly have a writedown as big as $5bn," Lynch said.
(14) It is inconceivable that parliament would have agreed to deprive the Chagossians of this fundamental birthright."
(15) Israel insists Hamas must disarm, which officials from the Palestinian group said on Thursday was "inconceivable".
(16) The Lib Dems have swallowed just about every dose of Tory poison – swingeing cuts, the VAT hike, trebling tuition fees, privatising the NHS, and so on – so it wasn't inconceivable they'd back this too.
(17) My more rough-and-ready, high-energy stuff would have been totally inconceivable for The Piano , so Jane forced me to do other things.
(18) Although the models are hypothetic, they do not contain biochemically inconceivable steps.
(19) England will be favourites, we play them last so we do think we will have a good chance of getting out of the group.” For Northern Ireland – drawn with world champions Germany, Ukraine and Poland – progress will also be tough but not inconceivable.
(20) He told reporters it was "inconceivable" that the UN would remain silent while the situation in Syria worsened, and it was " a question of days, maybe hours " before the council voted on the draft resolution.
Unbelievable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It is unbelievable that he would continue to say that, but he says it.
(2) An unbelievably convenient boost to demand in this country – and indeed to all economies that are major importers of oil – has come in the nick of electoral time from the halving of the world price of crude.
(3) 'The smell had become unbelievably bad by then', she said.
(4) The extensive surveillance, phone records and the evidence of the couriers made their denials unbelievable.
(5) It’s an unbelievable privilege and unbelievable responsibility to take a jewel and treat it in a way that is respectful of its past but brings it into the future.” Fortunately for both men, the signs are positive.
(6) Hotels are an easy option, often patronised by individuals who can be depicted as “unbelievers”, or representatives of the so-called Crusader-Zionist alliance so hated by the extremists, and usually poorly protected too.
(7) PhDs require funding, and veterinary nursing is unbelievably oversubscribed.
(8) "Unbelievable jobs numbers… these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers," he said on Twitter .
(9) Gravett and others who lived through DADT told the Guardian that so much had changed since the repeal, though the past feels unbelievable at times.
(10) "People seem shocked that we're going home, but what happened up there was unbelievable.
(11) While the search continued her son Adam Fawell, 29, told the Yorkshire Evening Post: “The support we are getting from friends and family is unbelievable and the stuff that is going around generally is incredible and a little bit overwhelming.” Elaine McIver, 43 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elaine McIver The family of Elaine McIver confirmed on Thursday that she had been killed in the blast on Monday.
(12) It was an unbelievable feeling,” Keating told Associated Press, adding she felt “totally blessed and loved” by the pope.
(13) Yes, Khodorkovsky has been very unlucky in his fate, but we, his compatriots, have been unbelievably lucky: the party of human dignity is today embodied by an individual who conducts himself in a model fashion and does not bend or break under pressure.
(14) Alfredo Serrano (@TheAlfrigerator) Papi is unbelievable.
(15) It was very strange, almost unbelievable," he says.
(16) Friedman said conservative social scientists and economists who testified for Michigan were "unbelievable" and "clearly represent a fringe viewpoint".
(17) Totally, unbelievably untrue, but it does create doubt and they just drive right through that.” The appearance, her fourth on the late-night talk show circuit after stints on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, also had lighter moments.
(18) Ftis said: “What I saw last night, it’s unbelievable.
(19) We are unbelievably sophisticated at that.” His most celebrated work, the remaking of Berlin’s bombed-out Neues Museum , which opened in 2009 after a decade of work he called “an unbelievably positive experience”, was based on a serious debate about meaning that he finds lacking in Britain.
(20) "The scene is just unbelievable," a witness told the Guardian.