imaginable
English
Etymology
From Middle English ymaginable, from Latin imāginābilis; equivalent to imagine + -able.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈmadʒɪnəbəl/, /-nəbəl/, /ɪˈmadʒnəbəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnəbəl/, /-nəbəl/, /ɪˈmæd͡ʒnəbəl/
Adjective
imaginable (comparative more imaginable, superlative most imaginable)
- Able to be imagined; conceivable.
- 2002, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English:
- While running, they were exposed to the most hideous bespawling imaginable.
- 2015, Ashok Som, Christian Blanckaert, The Road To Luxury:
- By the early 1980s, Gucci was overlicensed, with its logo on every product imaginable from headscarves to key rings to lighters.
- Within the realm of consideration.
- 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 171:
- Nevertheless, even if these forms do not directly go back to Lat. autumnus, influence of this word is imaginable.
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Translations
able to be imagined; conceivable
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Catalan
Etymology
Adjective
imaginable m or f (masculine and feminine plural imaginables)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.ma.ʒi.nabl/
Adjective
imaginable (plural imaginables)
Further reading
- “imaginable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Adjective
imaginable
- alternative form of ymaginable
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /imaxiˈnable/ [i.ma.xiˈna.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: i‧ma‧gi‧na‧ble
Adjective
imaginable m or f (masculine and feminine plural imaginables)
Further reading
- “imaginable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024