unimaginable

adjective

un·imag·in·able | \ ˌən-ə-ˈmaj-nə-bəl

, -ˈma-jə-\

Definition of unimaginable

: not imaginable or comprehensible unimaginable horror

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the unimaginable horrors of war a disaster of almost unimaginable proportions This technology would have been unimaginable five years ago.

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Just a few days in the future, the unimaginable will happen—Notre-Dame, so near here, will burn, and the world will look on in sadness and horror. — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, "Cartier Celebrates Its Latest Collection With a Lavish Parisian Fete," 19 Apr. 2019 Killing Eve is almost unimaginable without Sandra Oh in the title role. — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, "Codename Villanelle Author Luke Jennings on Why Sandra Oh Is "Just Perfect" to Play Eve," 4 Apr. 2019 A decade ago, the sight of new homes under construction in Maricopa, an enclave of tidy cul-de-sacs 35 miles from downtown Phoenix, was almost unimaginable. — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, "A Decade After the Housing Bust, the Exurbs Are Back," 26 Mar. 2019 The thought of having to go through all of that plus having a million cameras in my face, bullied left right and center, and still be gracious, elegant, gorgeous, and full of purpose in front of the whole world is unimaginable. — Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR, "Audra McDonald Defends Meghan Markle Against Online Abuse & Press Intrusion," 10 Mar. 2019 For plenty of Americans — especially millennials, who were children when the books first came to the US — that’s an almost unimaginable hypothetical. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "I didn’t read Harry Potter when I was growing up. And I wasn’t alone.," 31 Aug. 2018 Available online, the brief clips bring almost unimaginable horrors to life. — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, "Holocaust Museum shows how Nazi theories affected 12 survivors," 1 July 2018 Men, women and children languished there in conditions of almost unimaginable squalor, brutality, overcrowding, starvation, verminous infestation and neglect. — Patrick Mcgrath, New York Times, "A Dumping Ground for the Poor, the Criminal and the Mad," 28 June 2018 The bloody labor strikes of the 19th century – like one in 1892 at Carnegie’s Homestead, Pa., steel works in which 12 people were killed – would be almost unimaginable today. — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, "America's Second Gilded Age: More class envy than class conflict," 17 May 2018

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