Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inconceivable manner; beyond the power of conception.
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- adverb In an
inconceivable manner, notbelievable orunderstandable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to an inconceivable degree
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Examples
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She added that officers "inconceivably" eliminated Napper over a series of rapes on parkland in south London because he was thought to be too tall.
Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010
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She added that officers "inconceivably" eliminated Napper over a series of rapes on parkland in south London because he was thought to be too tall.
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Likewise, if the word "inconceivably" or "unimaginably" or "staggeringly" could be added as an adjective to describe the scale of the engineering, the temperature of beam-weapons, the speed of the vessels, the hardness of the space-armor, or the size of explosions and the resulting volume of destruction, or the beauty of the faultless heroine or the sex appeal of the evil space-emperor's willful daughter, without seeming particularly out of place in the sentence, the story is a Space Opera.
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Likewise, if the word "inconceivably" or "unimaginably" or "staggeringly" could be added as an adjective to describe the scale of the engineering, the temperature of beam-weapons, the speed of the vessels, the hardness of the space-armor, or the size of explosions and the resulting volume of destruction, or the beauty of the faultless heroine or the sex appeal of the evil space-emperor's willful daughter, without seeming particularly out of place in the sentence, the story is a Space Opera.
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And frankly, any variety of natural events could do inconceivably more damage then anything we could muster.
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Almost inconceivably, it functioned—or malfunctioned, Alizome thought—as a republic, and not just as a republic but as one with an unregulated gene pool.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Much of the past three days, when I wasn't too hot and sweaty to think, has been spent pondering some of the inconceivably stupid myths about Elizabeth Short that have been handed down across the decades.
Strange moon, strange land, strange man. greygirlbeast 2009
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Almost inconceivably, it functioned—or malfunctioned, Alizome thought—as a republic, and not just as a republic but as one with an unregulated gene pool.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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By the antiseptic standards of our current Western and Westernized nations, every civilization in history has been inconceivably violent, not just in act but in attitude, and this includes their religious conceptions.
Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network 2010
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By the antiseptic standards of our current Western and Westernized nations, every civilization in history has been inconceivably violent, not just in act but in attitude, and this includes their religious conceptions.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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