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.
Wiktionary
adv. In an inconceivable manner, not believable or understandable.
WordNet
adv. to an inconceivable degree; "inconceivably small"
Usage examples of "inconceivably".
Such republics of the past as Adams had written about in his Defence of the Constitutions were small in scale--so what hope was there for one so inconceivably large?
These inconceivably gigantic and mysterious masses had existed in space for an infinitely long time, secretly drawing into their inert ocean everything that came within reach of the inescapable tentacles of their gravity.
When, the very next day, Lord Ravenel, not on horse-back but in his rarely-used luxurious coronetted carriage, drove up to Beechwood, every one in the house except myself was inconceivably astonished to see him back again.
This hideous apparition, inconceivably drunk, has a terrible power of making a gong-like imitation of the braying of an ass: which feat requires that he should lay his right jaw in his begrimed right paw, double himself up, and shake his bray out of himself, with much staggering on his next-to-no legs, and much twirling of his horrible broom, as if it were a mop.
How much more inconceivably drunk now, how much more begrimed of paw, how much more tight of calico hide, how much more stained and daubed and dirty and dunghilly, from his horrible broom to his tender toes, who shall say!
Now the wallshield itself-that inconceivably rigid fabrication of pure force which only the detonation of twenty metric tons of duodec had ever been known to rupture-was all that barred from the base metal of Boskonian walls the utterly indescribable fury of the maulers' beams.
Now the wallshield itself-that inconceivably rigid fabrication of pure force which only the detonation of twenty metric tons of duodec had ever been known to rupture-was all that barred from the base metal of Boskonian walls the utterly indescribable fury of the maulers’.
Atlan, the sole observer-Atlan, fated to remain unaging for 10,000 years, his life full of inconceivably rich experiences-was staring with eyes torn wide open at this gleaming emission line that visibly grew every five minutes.
They were full of thousands of minuscule ratchets and gear wheels and ossified springs, like the innards of inconceivably tiny clocks.
What little science documents and hypothesizes makes Genesis 1:1 inconceivably impressive.
They were nothing now but two scurrying creatures caught in the web of the megalomaniacs, the power seekers, mice in the walls of an inconceivably vast social order.
Hitherto he had lived in so innocuously selfish, so puerilely playful, so inconceivably private and irresponsible a way.