unbelievableadjective
uk/ˌʌn.bɪˈliː.və.bəl/us/ˌʌn.bɪˈliː.və.bəl/unbelievable adjective (SURPRISING)
B1 extremely surprising:
She eats an unbelievable amount of food.
You've had such bad luck it's unbelievable.
You should see her wardrobe - it's unbelievable - she's got about 50 pairs of shoes.
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- Management have demonstrated almost unbelievable incompetence in their handling of the dispute.
- That anyone could be treated so badly - it's unbelievable.
- The cost of the building was unbelievable.
- His statement showed unbelievable arrogance.
- It's unbelievable that anyone could be so rude!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Surprising and shocking
- a blinding flash idiom
- a bolt from/out of the blue idiom
- amaze
- amazing
- astonish
- bolt
- breath
- dynamite
- earth-shattering
- expectation
- eye-opener
- faze
- revelation
- spring sth on sb
- staggering
- startle
- startling
- sting
- stunning
- thunderbolt
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unbelievable adjective (UNLIKELY)
B2 unable to be believed because unlikely:
I thought most of the characters in the play were totally unbelievable.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not believable
- belief
- by no stretch (of the imagination) idiom
- fanciful
- far-fetched
- fishy
- hard
- hear
- incredible
- incredibly
- likely
- miraculous
- pass
- pass (all) belief idiom
- smell fishy idiom
- unconvincing
- unthinkable
- unthinkable
- untrustworthiness
- untrustworthy
- wash
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