UNBELIEVABLE


Meaning of UNBELIEVABLE in English

/ ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl; NAmE / adjective

1.

used to emphasize how good, bad or extreme sth is

SYN incredible :

We had an unbelievable (= very good) time in Paris.

Conditions in the prison camp were unbelievable (= very bad) .

The cold was unbelievable (= it was extremely cold) .

It's unbelievable that (= very shocking) they have permitted this trial to go ahead.

2.

very difficult to believe and unlikely to be true

SYN incredible :

I found the whole story bizarre, not to say unbelievable.

OPP believable for sense 2

►  un·believ·ably adverb :

unbelievably bad / good

Unbelievably it actually works.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.