thinkable

/ˈθɪŋkəbəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English

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adj

adj

noun

"Marx held that a society from which all sources of conflict, aggression, and evil have been thus extirpated was not only thinkable, but was historically imminent."
"“Nothing can separate us; not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not threats, not even sin, not the thinkable or unthinkable can get between us,” it reads."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-West Germanic *þankijan Old English þenċan Middle English thinken English think Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English thinkable From think + -able.

more thinkable (comparative) most thinkable (superlative) thinkables (plural)

thinkability thinkableness thinkably

unthinkable

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How do you pronounce thinkable?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈθɪŋkəbəl/.

What does thinkable mean?

Able to be thought or imagined; conceivable.

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