OUT OF THE QUESTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does out of the question mean? 

• OUT OF THE QUESTION (adjective)
  The adjective OUT OF THE QUESTION has 1 sense:

1. totally unlikely

  Familiarity information: OUT OF THE QUESTION used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUT OF THE QUESTION (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Totally unlikely

Synonyms:

impossible; inconceivable; out of the question; unimaginable

Similar:

unthinkable (incapable of being conceived or considered)

 Context examples 

Maria thought speaking out of the question, and the gentlemen did nothing but eat and admire.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Well, but, leaving his land out of the question, do you like him?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To close her eyes in sleep that night, she felt must be entirely out of the question.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I cannot attempt to thank you, she continued, in a very agitated manner; thanks are out of the question.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Querulousness was out of the question.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I knew what was in his mind, just as he knew what was in mine; and killing being out of the question, we did the next best.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I may add that Miss Burnet’s age and character make it certain that my first idea that there might be a love interest in our story is out of the question.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is out of the question.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Relations were strained after that, and further inquiries out of the question.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That, however, was out of the question.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)