unimaginable

adjective

ˌən-ə-ˈmaj-nə-bəl
Definition of unimaginablenext
as in incredible
too extraordinary or improbable to believe a nearly unimaginable string of coincidences

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Recent Examples of unimaginable Davido has lived his entire adult life in public, and has weathered celebration, scrutiny, controversy, warranted criticism, deserved accolades, and unimaginable loss under a microscope. — Ivie Ani, VIBE.com, 30 July 2026 But their journeys took them on a route unimaginable even less than five years ago. — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026 The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. — Ari Daniel, NPR, 29 July 2026 That question, once unimaginable, has become urgent as climate change shrinks the country’s glaciers to the vanishing point. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for unimaginable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unimaginable
  1. incredible
  2. incredulous
  3. unlikely
  4. impossible
  5. inconceivable
  6. unthinkable
  7. unbelievable
Adjective
  • Below, shop nine incredible beauty products straight from her shelf and prepare to get healthy, smooth, and absolutely glowing skin.
    — Olivia Cefalu, InStyle, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Esponda almost came off the beam on two occasions, but showed incredible fight to salvage the routine.
    — Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of incredible
Adjective
  • When provided with the county’s explanation, Johnson was incredulous.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
  • On several occasions throughout the game, Lakers players were incredulous after calls – or non-calls – from the crew.
    — Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
Definition of incredulous
Adjective
  • After 40, about half are abnormal and unlikely to result in pregnancy.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
  • There is even a brief potential window for a few tiny raindrops in the Sacramento area Wednesday, although any rain on the radar is unlikely to reach the ground.
    — Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of unlikely
Adjective
  • The visions of Dreamers can be fraught with symbolism and almost impossible to understand.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
  • In many situations, landing a drone to replace a battery can be too dangerous or simply impossible.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of impossible
Adjective
  • The Mets were sellers from the cellar of the National League East at this year’s trade deadline, a once-inconceivable turn of events whose inevitability eroded its surprise.
    — Tim Britton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • This analogy is strangely anticlimactic and almost consoling, but a pedestrian ending comes with the territory in a scrupulously realistic book about the inconceivable.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Definition of inconceivable
Adjective
  • More than a decade later, that once-unthinkable milestone has been surpassed again and again, with the most exclusive properties commanding prices that would have seemed almost fictional a generation ago.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2026
  • That ordering would have been unthinkable in 2024, when benchmark scores sold deals.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of unthinkable
Adjective
  • 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
  • Deception has always existed in business, but AI has magnified it to unbelievable levels.
    — Muhamad Aly Rifai, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of unbelievable

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