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unthinkable |
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unthinkable Adjective 1. so shocking or unpleasant that one cannot believe it to be true 2. unimaginable or inconceivable
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unthinkable adjective 1. impossible, out of the question, inconceivable, unlikely, not on (informal) absurd, unreasonable, improbable, preposterous, illogical adjective 2. inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable, unimaginable, beyond belief, beyond the bounds of possibility Translations |
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| With the first drink he could eat a meal, and he could persuade himself that that was economy; with the second he could eat another meal--but there would come a time when he could eat no more, and then to pay for a drink was an unthinkable extravagance, a defiance of the agelong instincts of his hunger-haunted class. I sat up, earnestly damning the management of that unthinkable hotel, and was about to spring from the bed to go and make trouble for the night- clerk--him of the apologetic manner and the tallow candle--when something in the situation affected me with a strange indisposition to move. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron. |
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