unimaginable

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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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unimaginably

play \ˌən-ə-ˈmaj-nə-blē, -ˈma-jə\ adverb

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Examples of unimaginable in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples of unimaginable from the Web

The day the United States dares tease our nation with a nuclear weapon and sanctions, the mainland United States will be catapulted into an unimaginable sea of fire.

— veronica hilbring, Essence.com, "Threats, Missiles And A Lot Of Embarrassment: What You Need To Know About Trump And North Korea," 10 Aug. 2017
Indeed, a Moore nomination could even create the possibility of something even more unimaginable than his election: a viable Democratic candidacy in the general election scheduled for December 12.

— ed kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "Could Republican Infighting Send the ‘Ayatollah of Alabama’ to the Senate?," 7 Aug. 2017
Ultimately, McCoy was trying to fix an unimaginable mess at a company with operations all over the world, and proved slow to react to market changes such as the impact of e-commerce and changing demographics.

— phil wahba, Fortune, "How Avon’s CEO Failed to Fix the Company," 3 Aug. 2017
Calculations that were unimaginable in the '60s are now being used to recheck old results.

— chris lee, Ars Technica, "Placing humans at center of computer optimization yields hot plasmas," 30 July 2017
What people have experienced is nearly unimaginable.

— isabel coles, The Christian Science Monitor, "After three years of ISIS dominance in Mosul, Iraqi PM announces victory," 10 July 2017
A year ago, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds’ success would have been unimaginable.

— reid mccarter, GQ, "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Is Brutal, Cynical, Ugly—and Hugely Popular," 5 July 2017
Poverty is not a state of mind, and escaping concentrated and generational hardship is an unimaginable mountain to climb.

— wes moore, Time, "Wes Moore: The War on Poverty Has Become a War on the Poor," 4 July 2017
The human body, a disabled body, can work in ways that are unimaginable.

— fred dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Quadriplegic exemplifies meaning of her name: hope," 3 July 2017

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