| 单词 | inconceivable |
| 释义 | inconceivable (once / 1187 pages) adj If something is inconceivable, it doesn’t seem possible, it’s hard to imagine, or it can’t be true. It might seem inconceivable that a society would choose to pay bankers more than teachers, but it’s true. When an idea or event is inconceivable, it's so outlandish, amazing, or horrible that it’s hard to believe. The horrible acts committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust are inconceivable on many levels, yet we know they occurred. Some things are inconceivable because they really wouldn't happen — for example, it's inconceivable that you would actually eat your hat. WORD FAMILYinconceivable: inconceivability, inconceivableness, inconceivably+/conceivable: conceivability, conceivableness, conceivably, inconceivable/conceive: conceivable, conceived, conceiver, conceives, conceiving, conceptive, misconceive, preconceive/conceived: ill-conceived/conceiver: conceivers/concept: conceive, conception, concepts, conceptual, conceptualize/conception: conceptional, conceptions/conceptual: conceptualise, conceptualism, conceptuality, conceptually/conceptualise: conceptualisation/conceptualism: conceptualistic/conceptualization: conceptualizations/conceptualize: conceptualization, conceptualized, conceptualizes, conceptualizing/inconceivability: inconceivabilities/misconceive: misconceived, misconceives, misconceiving, misconception/misconception: misconceptions/preconceive: preconceived, preconceives, preconception/preconception: preconceptions USAGE EXAMPLESNo. 1 Alabama hasn’t lost in so long that the thought of being upset by No. 4 Washington is inconceivable to those around the program. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) What scholars think: “It’s not inconceivable,” said historian Mark Weston, who wrote a book about presidents who lost the popular vote. Time(Dec 02, 2016) What mattered most to the media was Mr. Trump’s character flaws—and it was inconceivable that voters would have different priorities. Wall Street Journal(Nov 23, 2016) adj totally unlikely Syn impossible, out of the question, unimaginable unthinkable incapable of being conceived or considered |
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