UNIMAGINABLE Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

unimaginable

adjective

ˌən-ə-ˈmaj-nə-bəl

Definition of unimaginable

as in incredible

too extraordinary or improbable to believe a nearly unimaginable string of coincidences

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Recent Examples of unimaginable But what ultimately saves the film is Hathaway's remarkable restraint in conveying Kym's deep pain and remorse over an unimaginable family tragedy. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2026 After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Republicans took a victory lap, rightly noting that the Soviet collapse was unimaginable when President Ronald Reagan first took office. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026 Five 17-year-old friends were killed when their vehicle plunged off a cliff and down a steep Colorado hillside, leaving their families and community grappling with an unimaginable loss just as a new school year begins. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 At its center are the unimaginable deaths of three young children and a mother whose mental state has become the subject of intense legal, medical, and public scrutiny. — Jamie Maguire, STAT, 12 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unimaginable

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Adjective

Spread across four floors (including an incredible rooftop terrace), this is a spacious home located in the center of Essaouira’s medina and its art galleries.

— Katie Silcox, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2026
Then that incredible precision vanished for an inning — and just an inning.

— Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of incredible

Adjective

Besides, there are tree branches to bundle, coupons to clip, guacamole to toss out, incredulous news reports to run through Snopes and at least 20 spam texts to block.

— Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
His incredulous response opens the door to a fight that escalates quickly.

— Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of incredulous

Adjective

Tottenham Hotspur’s Lucas Bergvall has also featured during discussions, but Newcastle baulked at the asking price and a move for the 20-year-old seems unlikely.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Simon Baughen, Professor of Shipping Law at Swansea University, said the path toward claiming Hormuz as a US territory was unlikely to come to fruition.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of unlikely

Adjective

Riccardo Fabiani, Project Director for North Africa for the International Crisis Group, says the mass crossing seen in Ceuta on July 30 is by nature impossible to blame on a single actor or state.

— Miguel Macias, NPR, 16 Aug. 2026
In the film, an impossible snowfall in a Ugandan village becomes a political allegory, echoing colonial intrusion.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of impossible

Adjective

There are plenty of inconceivable exploits in the final season of Outer Banks, in ranging degrees of ridiculousness.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026
After already undergoing two Tommy John surgeries to repair his UCL, Antone would now need an inconceivable third.

— Cal Phillips, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of inconceivable

Adjective

At the end of last year, with the duo having won eight Grand Slams between them in a row, that data point looked unthinkable.

— James Hansen, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
For Alexandre Gobillard, production director at the Gobillard & Fils Champagne house, beginning the harvest in mid-August was once almost unthinkable.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of unthinkable

Adjective

Matthew Stafford has an unbelievable ability to get the ball out of his hand fast which is hard to get home on.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Aug. 2026
Yet the procedural is so formulaic and the twists so unbelievable that even the most lackadaisical viewer will likely solve the mysteries long before the truth is revealed.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of unbelievable

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