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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
Park Geun-hye

Meaning of "unimaginable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNIMAGINABLE

unimaginable  [ˌʌnɪˈmædʒɪnəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNIMAGINABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unimaginable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNIMAGINABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

There are known knowns

"There are known knowns" is a phrase from a response United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave to a question at a US Department of Defense News Briefing in February 2002 about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. Rumsfeld stated: Reports that say there's -- that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things that we know that we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know. The statement became the subject of much commentary and derision.

Definition of unimaginable in the English dictionary

The definition of unimaginable in the dictionary is difficult or impossible to believe; inconceivable.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNIMAGINABLE


abominable
əˈbɒmɪnəbəl
assignable
əˈsaɪnəbəl
attainable
əˈteɪnəbəl
definable
dɪˈfaɪnəbəl
imaginable
ɪˈmædʒɪnəbəl
inclinable
ɪnˈklaɪnəbəl
indeclinable
ˌɪndɪˈklaɪnəbəl
interminable
ɪnˈtɜːmɪnəbəl
maintainable
meɪnˈteɪnəbəl
minable
ˈmaɪnəbəl
obtainable
əbˈteɪnəbəl
sustainable
səˈsteɪnəbəl
terminable
ˈtɜːmɪnəbəl
unattainable
ˌʌnəˈteɪnəbəl
undefinable
ˌʌndɪˈfaɪnəbəl
unexplainable
ˌʌnɪkˈspleɪnəbəl
unobtainable
ˌʌnəbˈteɪnəbəl
unsustainable
ˌʌnsəsˈtɛɪnəbəl
unwinnable
ʌnˈwɪnəbəl
user-definable
ˈjuːzədɪˈfaɪnəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNIMAGINABLE

unilocular
unimaginably
unimaginative
unimaginatively
unimaginativeness
unimagined
Unimak Island
unimbued
unimmortal
unimmunised
unimmunized
unimolecular
unimpaired
unimparted
unimpassioned
unimpeachability
unimpeachable
unimpeachableness
unimpeachably
unimpeached

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNIMAGINABLE

able
actionable
amenable
convenable
enable
explainable
fashionable
fissionable
listenable
objectionable
pensionable
personable
questionable
reasonable
returnable
tunable
turnable
unable
unalienable
unreasonable
untenable

Synonyms and antonyms of unimaginable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNIMAGINABLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unimaginable» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unimaginable

Translation of «unimaginable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNIMAGINABLE

Find out the translation of unimaginable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unimaginable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unimaginable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

难以想像的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inconcebible
570 millions of speakers

English

unimaginable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अकल्पनीय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لا يمكن تصورها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

невообразимо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inimaginável
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অকল্পনীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inimaginable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak dapat dibayangkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unvorstellbar
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

想像を絶する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

상상할 수 없는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unimaginable
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không thể tưởng tượng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கற்பனை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

न समजण्याजोगा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

düşünülemez
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inimmaginabile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niewyobrażalne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неймовірно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de neimaginat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αφάνταστη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ondenkbare
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ofattbara
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

utenkelig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unimaginable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNIMAGINABLE»

The term «unimaginable» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.894 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNIMAGINABLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «unimaginable» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «unimaginable» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unimaginable

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10 QUOTES WITH «UNIMAGINABLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unimaginable.
1
Giles Andreae
That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.
2
Georges Bataille
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
3
Anna Maria Chavez
Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.
4
Joan Chen
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
5
Kelsey Chow
'One Tree Hill' will always be very, very special to me. It was my first television show. And my first gig in the business. It was surreal. I booked the role when I was 13. I had just started high school, and literally, I think, a week into high school, I found out I got the role. It was unimaginable! I learned so much from that show.
6
Rupert Everett
To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.
7
Kenneth Fisher
Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.
8
Anna Freud
How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
9
Park Geun-hye
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
10
Paul Johnson
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless efficiency? I suspect future historians will puzzle over our failure. But by then, of course, we shall be in the age of mass space travel, with its fresh and unimaginable crop of horrors.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNIMAGINABLE»

Discover the use of unimaginable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unimaginable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control is a practical, task-oriented, instructional manual designed to help therapists provide effective treatment for survivors of these most extreme forms of child abuse and mental ...
Alison Miller, 2011
2
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature.
William Goldbloom Bloch Associate Professor of Mathematics Wheaton College, 2008
3
Unimaginable Life
Here is a verbal expression of this profound spiritual warmth -- a book essential for anyone who wants to have love and to make it last.
K & J Loggins, Kenny & Julia Loggins, 1998
4
Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, & the ...
Looking at how the war changed Russian culture, especially visual art, Cohen shows how the wartime environment allowed iconoclastic modern art to flourish.
Aaron J. Cohen, 2008
5
Imagining the Unimaginable: The Poetics of Early Modern ...
How is it possible to imagine what is unknown and therefore unimaginable? How can the unimaginable be represented? On what materials do such representations rely? These questions lie at the heart of this book.
Ladina Bezzola Lambert, 2002
6
Unimaginable Storms: A Search for Meaning in Psychosis
Several depth interviews by Murray Jackson, an authority on the application of psycho-analytic thought to the problems of psychosis are reproduced for the first time.
Murray Jackson, Paul Williams, 1994
7
Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics, and Rights at ...
This book traces how this critique developed and the difficulty it poses to the identification of situations for prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
William Schabas, 2012
8
Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics, and Rights at ...
As international criminal justice has grown in prominence, so have the challenges facing it. This book discusses the unresolved questions and dilemmas confronted by international war crimes courts.
William Schabas, 2012
9
Unimaginable Zero Summer: A Novel
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Leslie Stella, 2005
10
Representing the unimaginable: narratives of disaster
The 'unrepresentability' of the experience of a disaster and the textuality of the represented event - and thus also the contradictions, ruptures and silences inevitably created by the tensions between 'reality' and 'representation' - are ...
Angela Stock, Cornelia Stott, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNIMAGINABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unimaginable is used in the context of the following news items.
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Creamfields: Dogs endured 'unimaginable' death in hot car while …
A dog owner left his two Rottweilers to suffer an "unimaginable" death in a roasting car while he slept. Security guard Paul Cave, 60, locked his guard dogs ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Dr Amer Jafar urges Welsh NHS to improve medical training after …
Dr Jafar called for the investigation after he said 'unimaginable mistakes' were made at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff over his mother Zahar Al ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Unimaginable, inhumane act results in a time to grieve
Unspeakable, unimaginable, incomprehensible and unthinkable are the words we've heard and used to describe the horrific murders of nine African-Americans ... «Deseret News, Jun 15»
4
Specialist earns Soldier's Medal, tells of 'unimaginable' attack
As he stood just inside his boss' small office, Spc. Wilfred Sanchez felt someone approaching. "It kind of makes the hair of my neck stand up. When people walk ... «ArmyTimes.com, Jun 15»
5
No, the Charleston Shooting Wasn't 'Unimaginable'
The details are horrifying. At a Wednesday night bible study in Charleston, South Carolina, a gunman sat with his eventual victims for an hour before opening fire ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
6
Greek deal 'unimaginable' without departed IMF, warns Jeroen …
Jeroen Dijsselbloem said that a debt deal would be "unimaginable" without the IMF, "because it needs to have proper content and if it has proper content, the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
7
'Unimaginable': WSU graduate survives chaos of the Nepal …
"Everything was falling," Wichita State graduate Chahana Sigdel said via email. "A vase fell on me. My dad and sis were outside, and I screamed for Grandma, ... «Wichita State News, Apr 15»
8
'Unimaginable': Doctors overwhelmed at Nepalese trauma center
Ronisa Tamang blinks her purple, swollen eyes at the request of a doctor, and is able to lift her left hand in a weak motion, but not her right. She breathes in ... «Los Angeles Times, Apr 15»
9
'Unimaginable': Man killed when headstone falls at mother-in-law's …
“It is unimaginable to think that a visit of a faithful couple to the grave of loved ones in anticipation of the celebration of Easter could have ended in such a tragic ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
10
Memory | Witness of the Unimaginable: A New Installation Opening …
Le Laboratoire Cambridge is located at 650 East Kendall Street in Cambridge, MA. For more information on Memory | Witness of the Unimaginable and for future ... «PR Newswire, Mar 15»

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