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ʌnˈθɪŋ kə bəlun·think·able

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unthinkableadjective

    incapable of being conceived or considered

Wiktionary

  1. unthinkableadjective

    Incapable of being believed; incredible.

  2. unthinkableadjective

    Inconceivable or unimaginable; extremely improbable in a way that goes against common sense.

    Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development - Lewis Mumford

Wikidata

  1. Unthinkable

    Unthinkable is a 2010 American suspense thriller film directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen and Carrie-Anne Moss. It was released direct-to-video on June 14, 2010. The film is noteworthy for the controversy it generated around its subject matter, the torture of a man who threatens to detonate three nuclear bombs in separate U.S. cities.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Unthinkable in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Unthinkable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Unthinkable in a Sentence

  1. Barry Schwartz:

    Anybody who is a net saver and plans to be investing for the next many, many years should use any market selloff as an opportunity to buy, the alternative, sitting in cash earning negative returns, is unthinkable.

  2. Scott Roehm:

    The fact that somebody as sick as Mr. al-Qahtani poses some kind of security threat to United States is unthinkable.

  3. Liu Junhai:

    Twenty years ago this is unthinkable; an official government document would have settled any case, replacing administration with capitalism and shareholder rights; this is a big step in China's corporate governance.

  4. Jeffrey Gundlach:

    It seems to me almost unthinkable that U.S. interest rates could rise in any meaningful way against a backdrop of Spanish bond yields being less than 2 percent, bond yields are going to drop, I think, because if they can't go up, then they have to go down.

  5. Jolynne Nieto:

    You don't expect to leave work and not come home -- it's unthinkable, it's unbearable, we need to take gun safety on film sets more seriously.

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