adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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For many people the idea is alien, almost unthinkable .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In those days it was unthinkable for a lady to work outside the home.
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It is unthinkable that anyone would dare to enter the Control Area without permission.
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The amount of sex on television that we see today would have been unthinkable in previous decades.
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The idea of a world without music is unthinkable .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it is virtually unthinkable that it could end in an acquittal, still less a mistrial.
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In 1094 however such a future would have seemed unthinkable .
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It was unthinkable , of course, to take them this time, but it was a wrench leaving them behind with Polly.
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Older women in the developing countries suffered too, but medical care for them was unthinkable .
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The very philosophy of the Hegelians is therefore not a challenge to society but a way of making such challenge unthinkable .