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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unbelievable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ There were, it is true, plenty of tigers to hunt, but the numbers killed are almost unbelievable.
▪ Best of all, Happy Hour includes an almost unbelievable bar menu featuring specials for $ 1.95 and $ 4.95 per item.
▪ It was shameful, almost unbelievable, but she still wanted him.
▪ I do not dare print some of the letters I have received due to the almost unbelievable implications.
▪ The consequences are almost unbelievable until one follows them out.
▪ Now, thirty years later, it seemed almost unbelievable that the same Joseph Needham should still be alive.
▪ This kind of love is so rare as to be almost unbelievable.
▪ The company is diversifying, growing so fast it's almost unbelievable.
just
▪ Sometimes I wonder now whether I dreamed some of it, so much was just unbelievable, so grotesque.
▪ Guys and Dolls' in Las Vegas, and to see the reaction to this program was just unbelievable.
▪ Female speaker It's just unbelievable.
▪ I read a transcript of this guy, a cop, describing his life, and it was just unbelievable.
▪ That was just unbelievable and to win 6 &038; 5 in a fourball is a big margin.
▪ When we picked them up there was so many, it was just unbelievable.
quite
▪ The feeling he gave me winning the Dubai World Cup was quite unbelievable.
▪ All these links have bridged quite unbelievable distances.
▪ The way such people behave is quite unbelievable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He has unbelievable talent.
▪ I find it unbelievable that Mr. Carey does not remember the meeting at all.
▪ I find it unbelievable that Mr. Carvey has no memory of that day.
▪ It's unbelievable how nasty people can be.
▪ The things he had heard about her were almost unbelievable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even more unbelievable to Etherton was that there was no private photography gallery in this photography-rich city.
▪ It's just so unbelievable that she's so poorly.
▪ It creates an unbelievable pathos for Tithonus.
▪ It is unbelievable that a very complex form could just come into existence out of nothing.
▪ It was unbelievable, the demographics.
▪ Plastic and unbelievable though the characters may be, yet realistic and true to life are the human temptations and struggles involved.
▪ Sometimes I wonder now whether I dreamed some of it, so much was just unbelievable, so grotesque.
▪ The story of another girl isolated at school because she is from a foreign country is at first comforting, then unbelievable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unbelievable

1540s, from un- (1) "not" + believable. Related: Unbelievably.

Wiktionary
unbelievable

a. 1 Not to be believed. 2 incredible; so surprising it is almost unable to believe. 3 implausible or improbable.

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

  2. having a probability to low to inspire belief [syn: improbable, unconvincing, unlikely]

Wikipedia
Unbelievable (EMF song)

"Unbelievable" is a song written and recorded by British band EMF, originally appearing on their debut album Schubert Dip. It was released as a single in the UK in 1990, peaking in the UK Singles Chart at number three on 1 December 1990. It was the 32nd best-selling single of 1990 in the UK. In the United States, it hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on 20 July 1991.

Unbelievable (Wang Leehom album)

Unbelievable is the 9th album of the Taiwanese R&B artist and composer, Leehom Wang, and was released on October 15, 2003.

The album was awarded one of the Top 10 Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year at the 2004 IFPI Hong Kong Album Sales Awards, presented by the Hong Kong branch of IFPI.

Unbelievable (Diamond Rio album)

Unbelievable is the fifth studio album released by country music group Diamond Rio. Its title track and "You're Gone" were both Top 5 hits on the country charts in 1998-1999, while "I Know How the River Feels" (originally cut by Ty Herndon on his Living in a Moment album) was a minor Top 40, and was later a #69 for the group McAlyster in 2000.

Unbelievable (Diamond Rio song)

"Unbelievable" is a song written by Jeffrey Steele and Al Anderson, and recorded by American country music band Diamond Rio. It was released in October 1998 as the second single and title track from their album also titled Unbelievable.

The song was Diamond Rio's twenty-first single on the country music charts, and their first entry on the Billboard Hot 100.

Unbelievable (Craig David song)

"Unbelievable" is the third single from British singer Craig David's third album The Story Goes.... The third single from The Story Goes... was rumoured to be a double A-side of fan-favourites, "Hypnotic" and "Johnny", however it was "Unbelievable" that was chosen. It became one of David's smallest hits to date, peaking at number 18 in the UK. The disappointing performance of the song in the UK, where the first two singles charted in the top five, led "Unbelievable" to be the final single from The Story Goes... The song was slightly remixed for single release.

Unbelievable (Sarah Connor album)

Unbelievable is the second studio album by German recording artist Sarah Connor, released by X-Cell Records on September 30, 2002 in German-speaking Europe. Connor re-teamed with Rob Tyger and Kay Denar to work on the majority of the production of the album, consulting additional help from Wyclef Jean, Jerry Duplessis, Bülent Aris, Sugar P, and Triage.

While the album failed to link on the success of its predecessor Green Eyed Soul, it peaked at number 10 on the German Media Control albums chart, selling more than 250,000 copies domestically. Unbelievable also was released in a Spanish edition. Altogether the album spawned four singles: Jean-produced and featured " One Nite Stand (of Wolves and Sheep)", the ballad " Skin on Skin", " He's Unbelievable" (based on a sample of Tupac Shakur's " California Love"), and Connor's North American debut single " Bounce".

Unbelievable (book)

Unbelievable is the second in a series of collections of short stories by Australian author Paul Jennings. It was first released in 1987.

Unbelievable (Bob Dylan song)

"Unbelievable" is a song by Bob Dylan, recorded in the spring of 1990. It was released in September 1990 as a single (accompanied by a promotional video), and as a track on the album Under the Red Sky. As a single, it reached No. 70 in Canada, and No. 21 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

Unbelievable (TV series)

is a Japanese variety/documentary TV show produced by Fuji TV. It is hosted by Takeshi Kitano and began broadcasting in October 1997.

Unbelievable (Keke Wyatt album)

Unbelievable is the third studio album from R&B artist Keke Wyatt. It came out a year after her previous studio release, Who Knew?, on June 14, 2011 through Shanachie Records. It peaked at No. 48 on the R&B Albums chart.

Unbelievable (Lisa Ajax song)

"Unbelievable" is a song written by Jimmy Jansson, Micha Wilshire, and Lori Wilshire. It was performed by Lisa Ajax in the finals of Idol 2014. One week later, it topped the iTunes chart.

Unbelievable (The Notorious B.I.G. song)

Unbelievable is a song by American rapper The Notorious B.I.G., recorded for his debut studio album Ready to Die. It samples R. Kelly’s “Your Body’s Calling” and Honey Drippers' “Impeach the President”.

Usage examples of "unbelievable".

Also, of all unbelievable men to be in funds, he so found the town drunkard for whom he had bought many a drink in the old and palmy days.

It is a happy Sunday party, all the picnickers in heavy clothes, the ladies with clasped parasols, the men with bowler hats and walrus moustaches, all handsomely arrayed on a blanket in a clearing, against a backdrop of steeply slanting shafts of light and trees of unbelievable grandeur.

First when he was a cocky teenager looking for his nightly fix of spaceflight tales, then when he was scavenging, lying about how much he made and the unbelievable find that had just slipped from his fingers, and now as one of the super-elite, a starship owner-captain, one of the youngest ever.

The blood red of his hair spilled over his shoulders so that it framed the unbelievable whiteness of his body.

The sternal retractor, the scalpels, the hemostats, the table, the floor, all covered in an unbelievable amount of dried blood.

She reached for him as he bent his head to her, and she felt the same unbelievable wonder that she had felt the first time he put his lips on hers and showed her what a kiss was, and an inexpressible joy in knowing that she was actually traveling with him, going home with him.

The heat under the lights was unbelievable, but Carter was luckier than the ventriloquist, who had left his dummy on the stool unattended for five minutes.

He made an extra backswing for momentum, then drove his trapeze forward again, upward and upward to an almost unbelievable height.

He spread out beneath her, as frightened as she by the raging inferno that was consuming miles of brushland at unbelievable speed.

The commercials are lean in the writing and subtle in the acting, in contrast to most commercials in which the writing is excessive, pushy, adjective-laden, and unbelievable in dialogue.

To find a case of cysticercosis here, in northern Maine, is unbelievable.

Custom dictated that he should kneel and return the salutation because they were equals or near equals but he could not understand why there should be such unbelievable deferential ceremony in a situation like this where blood was going to flow.

There are a lot of Gaters in the government and unbelievable amounts of Gater money involved in politics.

The stuff, a chemical combination known only to Doc, was a sort of glassite that had unbelievable strength for its weight and thinness.

The Adams coupling found the usual psionic abilities, with the parakinetic strengths intensified to an unbelievable degree.