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 The film includes extensive dramatizations immersing viewers in this almost unimaginable story. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026 Precision therapies can support diagnosis and personalize treatment options at a pace that would have been unimaginable just a decade ago. — Brad Kreick, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 As Jay tries to avoid getting crushed by the whale’s stomach in one quivering chamber or dissolved by acid in the next, Abrams comes up with reactions that feel as plausible as possible in a situation that’s totally unimaginable. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026 In fractured times, in a national media scrum unimaginable just a few decades ago, what is the proper way to approach a job like this? — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unimaginable

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Adjective

Achieving incredible data transmission speed The researcher fabricated the device using a 300-millimeter silicon-on-insulator manufacturing process.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
This year’s incredible class of awardees includes Jason Bolden, Kellon Deryck, Molly Greenwald, Chris Horan, Amy Komorowski, Thuy Nguyen, Law Roach, and Trish Summerville.

— InStyle, InStyle, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of incredible

Adjective

In a true turn of events that would seem almost incredulous in a Hollywood script, the boss of a now defunct production company that specialized in true crime is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
The title comes from a phrase that became part of his creative vocabulary and began appearing in sketches whenever an absurd situation called for a perfectly incredulous response.

— Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of incredulous

Adjective

Friedman began her remarks by reminding the audience of von Furstenberg’s unlikely beginning, born in Brussels to a Holocaust survivor.

— Ariel Bielsky, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026
Dahlia Scheindlin, a veteran pollster who works for left-of-center candidates and parties in Israel, speculated that the number of returning overseas voters was unlikely to be big enough to change the outcome of the election.

— Daniel Brook, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of unlikely

Adjective

Serhii Beskrestnov, a defense technology adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said long-standing restrictions on the civilian system in Ukraine made such offensive use impossible.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
The two versions of Israel that could result are so divergent as to seem impossible to reconcile.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of impossible

Adjective

But the story of twentieth-century democracy from Watergate to the Pentagon Papers is inconceivable without print.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
Technology, public taste and economic conditions all contributed to its once-inconceivable drastic makeover.

— Rick Nicita, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of inconceivable

Adjective

Before the start of the season, that would have seemed unthinkable.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Just a few years ago, this scene of Jewish worshippers praying openly and vocally atop Jerusalem’s holiest of holy sites – known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – would have been unthinkable.

— Ilan Ben Zion, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of unthinkable

Adjective

Dubbed 'Flash Charging,' this allows the Atto 8’s massive 115-kilowatt-hour battery to rocket from a 10% charge up to 70% capacity in an almost unbelievable five minutes.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
What Zoe [Kazan] has done with Steinbeck’s East of Eden is just unbelievable.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of unbelievable

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