IMAGINABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imaginable mean? 

• IMAGINABLE (adjective)
  The adjective IMAGINABLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being imagined

  Familiarity information: IMAGINABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMAGINABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being imagined

Synonyms:

conceivable; imaginable

Context example:

that is one possible answer

Similar:

thinkable (capable of being conceived or imagined or considered)

 Context examples 

I was at the mathematical school, where the master taught his pupils after a method scarce imaginable to us in Europe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Why, I’m getting everything ready for re-stepping the masts,” I replied easily, as though it were the simplest project imaginable.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is a lovely country; full of beauties of all imaginable kinds, and the people are brave, and strong, and simple, and seem full of nice qualities.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Oh!” cried Miss Bingley, “Charles writes in the most careless way imaginable. He leaves out half his words, and blots the rest.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But he knew only that he was hungry, and through his restless sleep he dreamed of feasts and banquets and of food served and spread in all imaginable ways.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A pain rating scale that attempts objectivity by reliance on a person's ability to rate pain on a scale of 0 to 5, 10, or 100, where the lowest number in the scale represents no pain and the highest number represents the worst imaginable pain.

(Numeric Pain Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

A snug small room; a round table by a cheerful fire; an arm-chair high- backed and old-fashioned, wherein sat the neatest imaginable little elderly lady, in widow's cap, black silk gown, and snowy muslin apron; exactly like what I had fancied Mrs. Fairfax, only less stately and milder looking.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, to your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby that he may endeavour to deserve her,—took leave, and went away.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Everything being then arranged, the servant who stood at the horse's head was bid in an important voice to let him go, and off they went in the quietest manner imaginable, without a plunge or a caper, or anything like one.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I immediately went into an explanation how I had never seen my own father; and how my mother and I had always lived by ourselves in the happiest state imaginable, and lived so then, and always meant to live so; and how my father's grave was in the churchyard near our house, and shaded by a tree, beneath the boughs of which I had walked and heard the birds sing many a pleasant morning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)