Imaginable
[ɪ'mædʒɪnəb(ə)l] or [ɪ'mædʒɪnəbl]
Definition
(a.) Capable of being imagined; conceivable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Conceivable.
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Examples
- I wish you could know Mr. Clayton; he is the dearest fellow imaginable, and unless I am mistaken he has fallen very much in love with me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I am very sorry, Mrs. Raddle,' said Bob Sawyer, with all imaginable humility, 'but the fact is, that I have been disappointed in the City to-day. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The feeblest imaginable current suffices to deflect the needle in one direction, which throws back the little beam of light upon it to the graduated front of the scale. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Presently a smoke rose about our feet--a smoke that smelled of all the dead things of earth, of all the putrefaction and corruption imaginable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Ponsonby, I conceived, was now mine, by right mine, by that firm courage which made me feel ready to endure any imaginable evil for his sake. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- My reason is the simplest imaginable, and the most easily acknowledged, he answered, still bearing with her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I would, all my life, and with all imaginable patience, I observed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I was at the mathematical school, where the master taught his pupils after a method scarce imaginable to us in Europe. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But in his present company Richard showed to the greatest imaginable advantage. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In reply to it, the lame man touched his hat again, with all imaginable politeness, and motioned towards Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I can never be grateful enough to you, Sam, I am sure,' said Arabella, with the sweetest smile imaginable. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Here, for several years, there was ceaseless activity in the preparation of these chemical compounds by every imaginable process and subsequent testing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was a wild masquerade of all imaginable costumes--every struggling throng in every street was a dissolving view of stunning contrasts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Let us apply it to love, to hatred, to humility, to pride; none of them ever arises in the smallest degree imaginable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The interest, on which justice is founded, is the greatest imaginable, and extends to all times and places. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He weighed and reweighed the meter plates, and pursued every line of investigation imaginable, but all in vain. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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