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)

  1. 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.
    1. 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

Catalan

Etymology

From imaginar +‎ -able.

Adjective

imaginable m or f (masculine and feminine plural imaginables)

  1. imaginable

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i.ma.ʒi.nabl/

Adjective

imaginable (plural imaginables)

  1. imaginable

Further reading

Middle English

Adjective

imaginable

  1. 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)

  1. imaginable, cogitable, conceivable, thinkable

Further reading