adj
Meaning 1
Unable to be conceived or imagined; unbelievable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unconceivable, unthinkable
Antonyms: conceivable
Standard Lemma guide
inconceivable
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɪn.kənˈsiː.və.bl̩/
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
totally unlikely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: impossible, out of the question, unimaginable
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From in- + conceivable.
Across languages
Translations
54 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: inconcebible — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Belarusian: непасці́жны (njepascížny) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Belarusian: невыабража́льны (njevyabražálʹny) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Bulgarian: неми́слим (nemíslim) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Bulgarian: невъобрази́м (nevǎobrazím) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Catalan: inconcebible — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Chinese Mandarin: 不可思議 /不可思议 (bùkěsīyì) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Chinese Mandarin: 難以置信 /难以置信 (nányǐzhìxìn) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Czech: nepředstavitelný — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Dutch: onvoorstelbaar — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Dutch: ongelofelijk — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Esperanto: neimagebla — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Finnish: käsittämätön — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Finnish: uskomaton — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- French: inconcevable — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Galician: inconcibible — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Galician: inconcibíbel — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Georgian: წარმოუდგენელი (c̣armoudgeneli) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Georgian: დაუჯერებელი (dauǯerebeli) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- German: unfassbar — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- German: unfasslich — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- German: unbegreiflich — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- German: unglaublich — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- German: nicht wahrnehmbar — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Greek: ακατανόητος (akatanóitos) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Hindi: अकल्पनीय (akalpanīya) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Hindi: कल्पनातीत (kalpanātīt) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Hungarian: elképzelhetetlen — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Hungarian: felfoghatatlan — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Hungarian: elgondolhatatlan — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Hungarian: hihetetlen — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Italian: inconcepibile — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Latin: incōgitābilis — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Norwegian Bokmål: utenkelig — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Norwegian Nynorsk: utenkeleg — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Norwegian Nynorsk: utenkjeleg — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Polish: niepojęty — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Polish: niewyobrażalny — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Portuguese: inconcebível — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Romanian: neconceptibil — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Romanian: neverosimil — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Romanian: de neconceput — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Romanian: de neînțeles — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Romanian: de nepriceput — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Russian: непостижи́мый (nepostižímyj) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Russian: немы́слимый (nemýslimyj) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Russian: невообрази́мый (nevoobrazímyj) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Spanish: inconcebible — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Swedish: ofattbar — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Swedish: obegriplig — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Tibetan: བསམ་ཡས (bsam yas) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Ukrainian: незбагне́нний (nezbahnénnyj) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Ukrainian: неми́слимий (nemýslymyj) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable
- Ukrainian: неуявле́нний (neujavlénnyj) — unable to be conceived, unbelievable