out of the question
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.31 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A second special was out of the question, as the ordinary local service was already somewhat deranged by the first."
- "Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either."
- "If Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games turns up on middle-school curricula 50 years from now—and as accessible dystopian science fiction with allusions to early-21st-century strife, that isn’t out of the question—the lazy students of the future can be assured that they can watch the movie version and still get better than a passing grade."
Inflected Forms
more out of the question (comparative)
most out of the question (superlative)