thinkable en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈθɪŋkəbəl/
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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Able to be thought or imagined; conceivable.
“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.
2023 May 27, Ray Sanchez, “Does Brian Laundrie’s mom risk criminal charges over her ‘burn after reading’ letter? Here’s what legal experts say”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 May 2023: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.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
- (rare) Morally acceptable or legal.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more thinkable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most thinkable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
thinkableness · thinkably · thinkability
Translations (22)
tr düşünülebilir (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · ru вообрази́мый (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · la cōgitābilis (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · cs představitelný (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · cs myslitelný (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · fr pensable (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · sv tänkbar (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · fi ajateltavissa (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · nl denkbaar (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · bg мислим (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · ro gândibil (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · ja 考えられる (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · ro imaginabil (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · bg възможен (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · es pensable (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · fi mahdollinen (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · de denkbar (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · cmn 能想到的 (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · ru мы́слимый (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · cmn 可考虑的 (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · ro posibil (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable) · tr kavranılabilir (able to be thought or imagined; conceivable)