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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
imaginable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Doctors have tried every imaginable treatment for her skin disease.
▪ We had the best vacation imaginable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And any connections and combinations imaginable thereof.
▪ Dining options focus not only on renowned Alberta beef but also on almost every imaginable ethnic cuisine.
▪ It was also one of the meanest-looking birds imaginable.
▪ Kindergartners write in every genre imaginable.
▪ Surely, there will be other possibilities not even imaginable now.
▪ These remarkable lodges have been designed to provide the most stylish, comfortable and sophisticated homes imaginable.
▪ We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imaginable

Imaginable \Im*ag"i*na*ble\, a. [L. imaginabilis: cf. F. imaginable.] Capable of being imagined; conceivable.

Men sunk into the greatest darkness imaginable.
--Tillotson. -- Im*ag"i*na*ble*ness, n. -- Im*ag"i*na*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
imaginable

late 14c., ymaginable, from Old French imaginable and directly from Late Latin imaginabilis, from Latin imaginari (see imagine). Related: Imaginably.

Wiktionary
imaginable

a. Able to be imagined; conceivable

WordNet
imaginable

adj. possible to conceive or imagine; "that is one possible answer" [syn: conceivable, possible]

Usage examples of "imaginable".

I was, therefore, obliged to give it up, as you may imagine, but I own I went away with rather a heavy heart, for the horse had looked at me affectionately, had rubbed his head against me and, when I mounted him, had pranced in the most delightful way imaginable, so that I was altogether fascinated with him.

The marriage was celebrated in all imaginable pomp, and Avenant and the Fair One with Golden Locks lived and reigned happily together all their days.

I later sent a message to my friend back on Earth, informing him that we had seen Bozo and his mate, together with a litter of eight of the fattest, most adorable othode pups imaginable.

After it was over I put on their chemises and took off their breeches with all the decency imaginable, and after spending a few minutes in the next room they came and sat down on my knee of their own accord.

Jones was acting the most virtuous part imaginable, in labouring to preserve his fellow-creatures from destruction, the devil, or some other evil spirit, one perhaps cloathed in human flesh, was hard at work to make him completely miserable in the ruin of his Sophia.

It was not, Chernock thought grimly, the most cohesive command team imaginable.

Stuard tried to hold her, but her disorder increased in violence, and the coverlet was disarranged to such a degree that I could see the most exquisite naked charms imaginable.

He gives a precise biological description of every imaginable thing there is to eat, then presents an exact analysis of every imaginable method of cooking it and shows how all the glories of cuisine rise out of the limitless intersections of these two forces.

It could be programmed to output any sequence of deoxyribonucleic acid or ribonucleic acid imaginable, along with associated proteins.

He also ran casinos, dog tracks, was involved in illicit trades on the stock market, owned diamond mines, smuggled opium and probably had a finger in every dodgy pie imaginable .

Every imaginable cooking instrument lay strewn across an oak table, along with tomes of recipes that Dumas had compiled from all over the world.

More serious and scientific followers of Ptolemy, however, would have to spiral the Sun through the most complex gyrations imaginable, in order to save these newly recognized appearances in a geocentric and geostationary system.

I pulled at the same moment, our conflicting efforts sometimes came together and suddenly it would happen, easily: in the most dramatic fashion imaginable, a turtle would surge over the gunnel and slide onto the tarpaulin.

She had the smallest mouth imaginable, but her teeth, though regular, were not so white as her skin.

He had scarcely uttered the words when the duchess coolly gave him a box on the ear, which the monk received with the best grace imaginable.