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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
incredible
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
enormous/considerable/incredible odds
▪ He survived a night in the cold water against incredible odds.
remarkable/considerable/incredible etc feat
▪ They climbed the mountain in 28 days, a remarkable feat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ That she should spare a first glance, let alone a second, on this man was almost incredible.
just
▪ The hassle will be just incredible, man.
▪ It's just incredible to try to create their vibrato and note choice on guitar.
▪ To hold this little thing in your arms and feel a tremendous love and protection towards it is just incredible.
most
▪ Mr. Hamilton I find that, from start to finish, a most incredible contribution.
▪ We went inside, and there ii was, the most incredible thing I had ever seen.
▪ Main made me the most incredible clothes.
▪ You can turn them up to the most incredible volume and strum them very lightly, and you get a really lovely sound.
▪ We turned north along the Shyok gorge and passed through some of the most incredible scenery that any of us had witnessed.
▪ The most incredible case involved a guy in Harrow who was advertising for men as a blonde woman called Susannah.
▪ It was the most incredible place we had ever seen.
quite
▪ But in fact the similarities between you and Sybil are quite incredible - suspiciously so.
▪ It is really quite incredible that, after ten months, Councillor Buchanan should still be unaware of such basic facts.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ In 1988, 2,019 Rottweilers were registered from 204 litters, which seems an incredible amount of Rottweilers per head of population.
▪ One year ago, Paul Pierce was under an incredible amount of pressure to make a decision.
▪ Clearly, you can get a starter home and not pay an incredible amount of money.
feat
▪ Stale soul purifier Souls, like bodies and minds, are capable of incredible feats of endurance.
▪ It was an incredible feat of engineering, dug by hand.
▪ It would be an incredible feat for a side built from unsung players.
▪ He attempted to envisage and explain the incredible feat of navigation undertaken by Captain Bligh after the Mutiny.
▪ It's an exciting life by any standards and this description of Watson's incredible feats certainly makes exciting reading.
speed
▪ It was moving at an incredible speed through the green desert.
▪ Then it zipped away at what seemed like incredible speed and vanished from view.
▪ Many unattached skis went sliding off down the hill at incredible speed.
▪ A wall of dark water, approaching our port side at an incredible speed.
▪ Pattern cutters, fitters, sewing hands and their assistants all worked at an incredible speed.
▪ It grew bigger with incredible speed, she was whizzing towards it.
▪ The computer can produce great volumes of rubbish at incredible speed.
thing
▪ In this time some incredible things in terms of animal distribution and evolution have taken place there.
▪ This is just an incredible thing.
▪ You think and say incredible things.
▪ We went inside, and there ii was, the most incredible thing I had ever seen.
▪ But he took charge of men; organized them; persuaded or inspired or commanded them to endure incredible things.
▪ You see all these incredible things they do, and some of it rubs off on you.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an incredible story of survival
▪ It is incredible that the police still haven't caught him.
▪ She's an incredible dancer.
▪ The divorce rate in the U.S. is pretty incredible.
▪ This factory was capable of producing an incredible 100 cars per hour.
▪ Winning the championship was an incredible feeling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After beating incredible odds to prove himself a classroom genius, Steven has been cruelly snubbed by prospective employers.
▪ Do you know-this is pretty incredible actually-I once saw Ringo Starr.
▪ For one incredible moment, Merrill knew a stab of envy of Elise.
▪ He has an incredible understanding of what needs to be done.
▪ It's an incredible confidence-inspiring drive.
▪ It is really quite incredible that, after ten months, Councillor Buchanan should still be unaware of such basic facts.
▪ The panorama from this point was incredible, a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree vision of natural grandeur.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incredible

Incredible \In*cred"i*ble\, a. [L. incredibilis: cf. OF. incredible. See In- not, and Credible.] Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous.

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
--Acts xxvi. 8.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incredible

early 15c., "unbelievable," from Latin incredibilis "not to be believed," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + credibilis "worthy of belief" (see credible). Used c.1400 in a now-extinct sense of "unbelieving, incredulous." Related: Incredibly.

Wiktionary
incredible

a. 1 Too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable. (from 15th c.) 2 amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring. 3 marvelous; profoundly affecting; wonderful.

WordNet
incredible

adj. beyond belief or understanding; "at incredible speed"; "the book's plot is simply incredible" [syn: unbelievable] [ant: credible]

Wikipedia
Incredible

Incredible may refer to:

Incredible (Mary Mary album)

Incredible is the second album by Grammy, Stellar and Dove-winning duo Mary Mary. This album features the singles "In the Morning" and "I Try". Mary Mary would ultimately shoot a music video for "In The Morning". This would be Mary Mary's final album for a 3-year period as they both grow their families (each getting married and having one daughter).

Incredible (The Shapeshifters song)

"Incredible" is the third single by the band The Shapeshifters, released in 2006. It became their third consecutive Top 20 single, peaking at #12 on the UK singles chart, but only remained in the Top 75 for four more weeks. It was the follow-up to both the chart-topping " Lola's Theme" and the Top 10 hit "Back to Basics".

Category:2006 singles Category:British songs

Incredible (What I Meant to Say)

"Incredible (What I Meant to Say)" is Darius Danesh's third single from his debut album Dive In.

Incredible (Clique Girlz album)

Incredible is the first and only studio album by girl group Clique Girlz. In promotion of the upcoming album, an EP entitled Clique Girlz was released in April 2008. The band also released "Incredible," a single available for digital download on iTunes and other online music stores. They also released another EP entitled Smile to iTunes. Their last release was an EP called Incredible.

The album features the singles: "Then I Woke Up", and "Incredible." It also includes many other songs that have been released before by the Clique Girlz, such as "Smile" and "The Difference In Me" from their debut EP, Clique Girlz.

Incredible was supposed to come out in the summer of 2008, but the album was pushed back several times until its eventual cancellation.

The Clique Girlz have filmed music videos for "Then I Woke Up," "Incredible" and "You Think." The videos are all available on iTunes. The official Vevo however only has 'Then I Woke Up' And 'Incredible.'

Incredible (Keith Murray song)

"Incredible" is a single by Keith Murray and LL Cool J from Murray's third album, It's a Beautiful Thing. It was produced by Erick Sermon and made it to two Billboard charts, peaking at 70 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and 36 on the Hot Rap Singles

A colorful music video (directed by Diane Martel) was released for the song. The music video, a parody of comics' Batman and Robin, starred Murray as the Lyrical Lexicon, Redman as his sidekick Funk Doctor Spock, LL Cool J as the duo's nemesis the Last Laugher, Erick Sermon as the Green Eyed Bandit and Craig Mack as Sinister James.

Incredible (Ilse DeLange album)

Incredible is the fifth studio album of singer songwriter Ilse DeLange.

Incredible (Timomatic song)

"Incredible" is a song by Australian recording artist Timomatic, taken from his self-titled second studio album. It was written by Timomatic, Lindsay Rimes and B. Creswell. The song was released physically on 28 September 2012, as the fourth single from the album. After its release, "Incredible" peaked at number 18 on the ARIA Singles Chart and was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association. It also peaked at number 17 on the New Zealand Singles Chart. Emma Tomelty directed the music video which features Timomatic singing and dancing in front of a backdrop of snowy mountains, and a romantic relationship between him and his love interest.

Incredible (Gary Puckett & The Union Gap album)

Incredible is the fourth studio album by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap released in 1968. The album landed on the Billboard 200 chart, reaching No. 20, being the group's top charting album.

The song " Lady Willpower" was released in June 1968 and hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 26 on the adult contemporary chart, and No. 5 on the United Kingdom chart. The song " Over You" was released in September 1968 and hit No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 3 on the adult contemporary chart, and No. 54 on the United Kingdom chart.

Incredible (XIA album)

Incredible is the second Korean solo studio album by JYJ member Kim Junsu (stage name: XIA). It was released digitally and physically on July 15, 2013. The same day MelOn TV and LOEN Entertainment streamed his live showcase, the latter via YouTube and uStream.

18,000 tickets for the connecting Xia 2nd Asia Tour Concert Incredible in Seoul to be held later were sold in 15 minutes.

Incredible (Celine Dion and Ne-Yo song)

"Incredible" is a song by Canadian singer Celine Dion and American singer-songwriter and record producer, Ne-Yo. It was recorded for Dion's English-language studio album, Loved Me Back to Life (2013) and chosen as the second single in North America, most countries in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The song was co-written by Andrew Goldstein, Emanuel Kiriakou and Ne-Yo, and produced by Kiriakou.

In mid-December 2013, "Incredible" was nominated in category World's Best Song at the World Music Awards and in late January 2014, it was chosen by NBC as the official anthem of 2014 Winter Olympics. The digital single with two rare bonus tracks was released in most countries in Europe, and in Australia and New Zealand on 14 February 2014. The song was sent to Adult Contemporary radio stations in the United States on 24 February 2014, and the music video for "Incredible" was released on 4 June 2014. "Incredible" was also added to BBC Radio 2's B-List on 12 July 2014 and released as the fourth promotional single in the United Kingdom.

Usage examples of "incredible".

How ever, you may well enough discerne in these examples how confident many of these great Schollars were in so grosse an errour, how unlikely, what an incredible thing it seemed to them, that there should be any Antipodes, and yet now this truth is as certaine and plaine, as sense or demonstration can make it.

We might content ourselves with relating this extraordinary transaction, but we cannot dissemble how much in its present form it appears to us inconsistent and incredible.

In fact, out of the entire incredible range of Aristotelian writings, only one set of manuscripts had been recovered, and even that had not been translated into Latin.

Jane watched as he directed Ascot along the path that skirted the wood, riding the magnificent beast with incredible ease.

It was at that point that the Baron of Wildantor gave the shrieking Murgos a pointed demonstration of the incredible range of the Asturian longbow.

For if the Atkins and DeCarlo stories were true, he was not only capable of committing murder himself, he also possessed the incredible power to command others to kill for him.

So much I learned from the custodian of the cemetery before I set out along the Aylesbury Road, refusing to think further about this incredible information until I had spoken with Paul Tuttle.

The people hoot and hiss them, the lower classes sing songs in derision of them, and play them all manner of tricks, and the whole scene is one of incredible noise, uproar, and confusion, more worthy of some pagan bacchanalia than a procession of Christian people.

At work, my business life has been spent in lockstep with an incredible group of Wal-Mart associates who have put up with all my aggravation and bullheadedness and pulled together to make what once appeared truly impossible now seem expected and routine.

I was stationed in Paris and occasionally in London at that time, and fascinating though those capitals were to a young American happy to have escaped from the incredible smugness and emptiness of the Calvin Coolidge era, they paled a little when one came to Berlin and Munich.

Staying in this zone for just 1-minute intervals produces incredible cardiovascular results.

Incredible as it seemed, the chawbacon seemed to have found himself a pearl.

As this must appear so enormous as to be almost incredible, we present the annexed cut, supposed to represent a vertical section of one of the Chincha islands and the depth of the deposit according to the government surveys.

He stopped dead, flung the bandbox over a garden wall, and leaping upward with incredible agility and seizing the copestone with his hands, he tumbled headlong after it into the garden.

Leane had acquired creams and powders and an incredible assortment of mysterious scented things in the city and drilled her until she could have used them in her sleep.