The word
"unthinkable" means something that is impossible to imagine or consider due to being extremely shocking, outrageous, or beyond belief.
Full definition
(1) The very existence of such possibilities implies something else that is almost
unthinkable for most.
The nation's largest city and financial center going bankrupt seems
unthinkable in 2013.
One thing that's clear,
if unthinkable: He is even longer than before.
Every day I found myself in a situation that would
seem unthinkable in another context.
A draw would still leave us well in the mix with a lot to do, whereas a defeat would be
almost unthinkable as we would drop into the bottom three.
I know this is not the path to achieving every single possible sale, but is it as
unthinkable as what I've read seems to suggest?
That's a timetable for steep emissions reductions almost
unthinkable just a few years ago.
That's an insane phone bill, but it's
not unthinkable for those who have family plans.
These children are faced
with unthinkable challenges as they strive to survive without a loving family.
Over the past few decades, platforms and roles have been opened up to women that would have been
previously unthinkable.
This means that everyone — from contractors to sellers of advertising space to landlords — is currently offering bargains that would have seemed
unthinkable even a year ago.
The former stayed in the psychological realm of imminent danger, while the latter addressed recovery
from unthinkable violence that has already occurred.
It seems
unthinkable now that the grassroots would actively seek to replace him before the 2015 general election.
We have to create innovations and technologies many
consider unthinkable, to be able to beat climate change — one of the biggest challenges facing our world today.
These studies —
unthinkable until then — help us understand and address problems of biases and negative attitudes.
But when we have our backs to the wall, we will all start thinking
about unthinkable things and actually doing some of them.
As I write this, many recently
unthinkable things are happening around us, and financial headlines are becoming truly unbelievable.
I understand how a mother might be so sleep deprived, so angry and frustrated that she might do something
so unthinkable.
One small e-reader can relieve students of their heavy burden of textbooks, and vast areas of the developing world will gain access to information and educational opportunities that were
unthinkable before.
Running upstairs would have been
unthinkable only yesterday, but today she could do whatever she liked.
Suddenly thrown into adulthood, they struggle to figure out how to connect in this new,
unthinkable situation.
It'd also give him the solo lead heading into the weekend, something
absolutely unthinkable just a couple of hours before when he walked off the 7th green.
All of this is creating
unthinkable levels of debt that must be confronted sooner or later.
No matter how much film you found on him, he brought something even
more unthinkable the next night.
The idea that someone we care about has a brain tumor is
virtually unthinkable; yet, sometimes it must be considered.
You may dismiss this as
politically unthinkable, but when the next recession comes, we will start with much higher debt levels than we had in 2008.
Making such a prediction now seems rather stark, as any of those choices will not be popular or pleasant, so they are
unthinkable today.
Escape was
unthinkable because of the horrifying consequences they certainly would face should they be discovered.
Surely, managing such ambitious ventures from the comfort of home would have been
nearly unthinkable 5 or 10 years ago.
To a degree that would have been
unthinkable during the Soviet era, the two camps became mutually hostile.
Upon escaping the hospital, he finds himself in a totally different world where confusion, fear and
unthinkable horrors are just around the corner.
Even throughout the first half of the twentieth century, American colleges and universities typically showed a concern to support religious practice that most university people today would
find unthinkable.
Whole areas of the state are totally inaccessible by any means, and an estimated 400,000 to 800,000 people are still trapped there living in
unthinkable conditions.
The cryptocurrency market reached
unthinkable heights last year and cryptocurrencies are becoming a widely used commodity.
Stem cell researchers performed a laboratory feat this year that was once
deemed unthinkable: the artificial creation of egg cells.
Perhaps it is not possible to do what the believer proposes, since it is
indeed unthinkable.
It is
entirely unthinkable that an article posted by one of the largest news organizations in the world would have an error of any kind within the first three words.
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