Dictionary

out of the question en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) Not remotely possible.
   • 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. 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, AV Club, The Hunger Games:
   • 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. 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
   • A second special was out of the question, as the ordinary local service was already somewhat deranged by the first. 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost Special:

Forms

Synonyms

unthinkable

Translations (22)

hu kizárt dolog (not remotely possible) · hu szó sem lehet róla (not remotely possible) · fr pas question (not remotely possible) · nb kommer ikke på tale (not remotely possible) · fr hors de question (not remotely possible) · nl nicht im Frage (not remotely possible) · hu ki van zárva (not remotely possible) · he לא בא בחשבון (not remotely possible) · ja 問題外 (not remotely possible) · mk не доаѓа во предвид (not remotely possible) · pl nie ma mowy (not remotely possible) · fr exclu (not remotely possible) · ja 問題にならない (not remotely possible) · is út úr kortinu (not remotely possible) · cmn 免談 /免谈 (not remotely possible) · de außer Frage (not remotely possible) · cmn 根本不可能的 (not remotely possible) · sv inte komma på fråga (not remotely possible) · es fuera de discusión (not remotely possible) · nb ikke tale om (not remotely possible) · fi ei tule kysymykseen (not remotely possible) · ru не мо́жет быть и ре́чи (not remotely possible)