beyond belief
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
To an extreme or unbelievable degree.
Example Sentences
- "Their trunks were gnarled beyond belief, like those in fairybooks. They were covered with the cuneiform of woodpeckers and yellowhammers."
- "He was worn out, dirty beyond belief, and home."
- "Once he even turned up at our aerobics class, clad in a muscle shirt and royal blue spandex shorts, which yucked me out beyond belief."
- "My name is General Robinson Risner. I was the highest-ranking prisoner-of-war in the Vietnam War. I spent seven years locked up in solitary confinement. I was tortured beyond belief. I limp because of it. Today I still have a hole in the front of my skull from the Chinese water torture inflicted on me."