seem unthinkable

Frequency: 7.814.2 per million words

Used to state that something appears to be impossible to imagine or accept.

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Examples (10)

  • It may seem unthinkable now, but we once lived without the internet.
  • At that time, such a crushing defeat seemed unthinkable to the army.
  • To the older generation, these rapid social changes often seem unthinkable.
  • It would seem unthinkable for the director to resign right now.
  • Living permanently on Mars might seem unthinkable to us today.
  • The sheer scale of the disaster made a full recovery seem unthinkable.
  • What once seemed unthinkable has now become commonplace in our daily lives.
  • It does not seem unthinkable that technology will eventually replace manual labor.
  • Failure did not just seem unlikely; it seemed absolutely unthinkable.
  • Such cruelty must seem unthinkable to a civilized society.