English > incredible: 1 sense > adjective 1Meaning | Beyond belief or understanding. |
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Examples | - "at incredible speed"
- "the book's plot is simply incredible"
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Synonym | unbelievable |
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Attribute of | credibility, credibleness, believability | The quality of being believable or trustworthy |
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Narrower | astounding, dumbfounding, dumfounding | bewildering or striking dumb with wonder |
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fabulous | Barely credible |
improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall | Too improbable to admit of belief |
undreamed, undreamed of, undreamt, undreamt of, unimagined | not imagined even in a dream |
See also | implausible | Having a quality that provokes disbelief |
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incredulous | not disposed or willing to believe |
unconvincing, flimsy | not convincing |
unthinkable | Incapable of being conceived or considered |
Opposite | credible, believable | capable of being believed |
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Spanish | increíble |
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Catalan | increïble, indreïble |
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Nouns | incredibility, incredibleness | the quality of being incredible |
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Adverbs | incredibly | not easy to believe |
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