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inconceivable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inconceivable \In`con*ceiv"a*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + conceivable: cf. F. inconcevable.] Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion.
It is inconceivable to me that a spiritual substance
should represent an extended figure.
--Locke.
-- In`con*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*ceiv"a*bly, adv.
The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any
subject to possess it.
--A. Tucker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + conceivable. Related: Inconcievably. An Old English word for this was unasmeagendlic.
Wiktionary
a. unable to be conceived, unbelievable
WordNet
adj. totally unlikely [syn: impossible, out of the question, unimaginable]
Wikipedia
Inconceivable is an American primetime television medical drama, which was broadcast on NBC. The program premiered on September 23, 2005. The show revolved around the professional and personal lives of those who work at the Family Options Fertility Clinic. The clinic is run by its co-founders ( Ming-Na and Jonathan Cake) along with their new partner ( Angie Harmon). The staff includes an attorney ( David Norona), a nurse ( Joelle Carter), office manager (Mary Catherine Garrison) and a medical technician ( Reynaldo Rosales).
The series was created by Oliver Goldstick and Marco Pennette. Goldstick and Pennette also serve as executive producers as do Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin. The show was a Touchstone Television and Tollin/Robbins production. It was one of the few shows produced by the former not to air on ABC in recent years.
Only two episodes aired before the series was canceled.
Inconceivable is a 1999 novel by Ben Elton, following a childless couple's efforts to conceive. The story is told in the form of journal entries by the two principal characters. It was adapted into the film Maybe Baby, which was directed by Elton.
Category:1999 British novels Category:British comedy novels Category:Novels by Ben Elton Category:British novels adapted into films
Inconceivable is a 2008 satirical drama about the test-tube baby industry. The film was written and directed by Mary McGuckian.
Inconceivable was a 2005 TV series starring Angie Harmon.
Inconceivable may also refer to:
- Inconceivable (2008 film), a 2008 film directed by Mary McGuckian
- Inconceivable (novel), a 1999 novel by Ben Elton
Usage examples of "inconceivable".
That the Universe might endure throughout an aera at all commensurate with the grandeur of its component material portions and with the high majesty of its spiritual purposes, it was necessary that the original atomic diffusion be made to so inconceivable an extent as to be only not infinite.
It was inconceivable that the Alemanni could have strayed so far from their Rhone forests, for Autun was a good hundred miles from the previous limits of their invasions.
It was not always a successful method of getting home, of course, and more than one young farmer had spent his summer months in hospital after the Bures Show, but to the younger generation it was inconceivable that they should sleep in an inn when their home was less than forty miles away.
Previous to the interview at Erfurt an event took place which created a strong interest in Hamburg and throughout Europe, an event which was planned and executed with inconceivable secrecy.
But to have them all set together in such a singular piece of Byzantine goldwork was inconceivable.
Thus it was that Victor and his friends had read a motley bevy of authors from John Stuart Mill to Herbert Spencer and acquired a knowledge of everything from libertarianism to contraception which would be inconceivable for an Etonian or Harrovian of the times.
Hayes and the postmistress, his girl was an undergraduate, here in Kinnikinick, and according to college regulations, and possibly the Bible and the State Constitution of Iowa, if they were married, she would have to drop out of college and less agile minds might even hint that there had been goings-on inconceivable in a rhetoric professor.
Reckoning on the lowest estimate, and counting the organic changes which take place during the age as amounting to the thousandth part of the organic changes since the Laurentian age, we find ourselves in face once again of that inconceivable sum which was indicated by the physical record.
It was inconceivable that Kit should not be a Lensman, and for a man to become a Lensman he had to be given everything he could possibly take.
This principle - absolute responsibility unconditionally combined with absolute authority - will gradually breed an elite of leaders such as today, in this era of irresponsible parliamentarianism, is utterly inconceivable.
In the cold placidness of postmodernity, what Marx and Engels saw as the co-presence of the productive subject and the process of liberation is utterly inconceivable.
It is inconceivable that Hel would try to enter England to put the Septembrists away without first neutralizing the British police.
That insult to his adored one seemed to Winton so inconceivable that, for a moment, he stopped her recital by getting up to pace the room.
The force of alignment is such that once the assemblage point breaks away from its normal position, it becomes fixed at other positions, by other alignments, and warriors run the risk of getting stranded in inconceivable aloneness.
It must be some unknown, inconceivable qualities, which can make his non-existence appear impossible, or his attributes unalterable: And no reason can be assigned, why these qualities may not belong to matter.