completely unthinkable
Frequency: 8.417.5 per million words
Emphasizes that something is totally impossible to imagine.
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Examples (10)
- The idea of leaving her children was completely unthinkable.
- It seems completely unthinkable now that people once smoked in hospitals.
- A permanent ceasefire once seemed completely unthinkable to both sides.
- For many families, the cost of private education is completely unthinkable.
- The sudden collapse of the company was completely unthinkable just a month ago.
- To suggest such a drastic change in policy would be completely unthinkable.
- Life without the internet has become completely unthinkable for the younger generation.
- Such a breach of security was previously considered completely unthinkable.
- The scale of the tragedy was completely unthinkable before it happened.
- In some cultures, questioning the elders' authority is completely unthinkable.