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think·a·ble

(thĭng′kə-bəl)

adj.

Possible to consider or be considered; conceivable: plans that were not even thinkable.

think′a·bly adv.

thinkable

(ˈθɪŋkəbəl)

adj

able to be conceived or considered; possible; feasible

think•a•ble

(ˈθɪŋ kə bəl)

adj.

1. conceivable.

2. possible.

[1850–55]

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Adj.

thinkable - capable of being conceived or imagined or considered

believable, credible - capable of being believed; "completely credible testimony"; "credible information"

possible - capable of happening or existing; "a breakthrough may be possible next year"; "anything is possible"; "warned of possible consequences"

unthinkable - incapable of being conceived or considered

thinkable

adjective possible, conceivable, imaginable, likely, reasonable, feasible, within the bounds of possibility At the same time, language makes thinkable the unreal and unreasonable.
impossible, unlikely, unthinkable, inconceivable, not on (informal), absurd, unreasonable, out of the question

thinkable

adjective

Capable of being anticipated, considered, or imagined:

conceivable, earthly, imaginable, likely, mortal, possible.

Idioms: humanly possible, within the bounds of possibility.

Translations

pensable

figurabile pensabile

thinkable

[ˈθɪŋkəbl] ADJ → concebible
it isn't thinkable that → es inconcebible or impensable que ...

thinkable

adj → denkbar

thinkable

[ˈθɪŋkəbl] adj it isn't thinkable that ... → è impensabile che... + sub

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All being would ye MAKE thinkable: for ye doubt with good reason whether it be already thinkable.

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What these are (and in spite of their grim name they are quite innocent) no array of terms would render thinkable to the merely English intelligence; but to the Scot they often prove unctuously nourishing, and Mr.

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Granting the possibility of spiritual apparition and even materialization, yet the apparition and materialization of a half-gallon brown clay jug--a piece of coarse, heavy pottery evolved from nothing--that is hardly thinkable.

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Edmund soon divined Billy's renunciation, though not the nature of it; and several questions brought it forth-- the old pioneer dream of land spaciousness; of cattle on a hundred hills; one hundred and sixty acres of land the smallest thinkable division.

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In religion, his inherited belief, rooted in his deepest fibers, early found itself confronted by the discoveries of modern science, which at first seemed to him to proclaim that the universe is much what it seemed to the young Carlyle, a remorseless monster, 'red in tooth and claw,' scarcely thinkable as the work of a Christian God who cares for man.

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Was it thinkable that such a creature as Avdotya Romanovna would be marrying an unworthy man for money?

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Experts working at the Commission's Merger Task Force are now faced with the dilemma that if they propose that the Commission grant unconditional approval to MdK GmbH this will fly in the face of basic principlesused in assessing the impact of mergers on markets, whereas it is hardly thinkable that the merger deal could be retrospectively disallowed at this late stage.

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And the specter of slow, or even not so slow, genocide in inner cities seems steadily more thinkable.

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He had to establish a "tradition" that made the shift to democracy thinkable and therefore possible.

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The constant threat of social conflict made the American withdrawal from Vietnam not only thinkable but necessary.

Moral minorities

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