Dictionary entry
Unthinkable
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈθɪŋkəb(ə)l/
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈθɪŋkəb(ə)l/
Myanmar Meaning
စိတ်မကူးနိုင်သော။ လက်မခံနိုင်သော။ အလွန်မဖြစ်နိုင်သော၊ မလိုလားအပ်သော။
Definition
unthinkable /ʌn'θÇŋkǝbl / adj မစဥ္းစားဝံ့ေသာ။ မေတြးဝံ့ေသာ။ ထည့္မစဥ္း စားေသာ။ ေခါင္းထဲမထည့္ေသာ။ Defeat was unthinkable. ❍ To abandon such an old tradition is unthinkable.
Examples
- ‘His creed
- and his actions
- are unthinkable
- but he is also our invention.’
- ‘A couple of decades ago
- such an event happening in England would have been unthinkable.’
- ‘That any Trade Union could ever be expelled from the Party was once unthinkable.’
- ‘Such events seemed unthinkable to most mainstream commentators a few years ago.’
- ‘A whole winter brooding on the events of August would be unthinkable for such a meticulous mind.’
- ‘Thankfully Ferguson was one of them too
- and the unthinkable defeat became merely an unpalatable draw.’
- ‘No one should be naive enough to believe these possibilities are unthinkable.’
- ‘By 60
- you've learnt to think the unthinkable and
- even better
- to say the unsayable.’
- ‘In extreme cases it can also lead to suicide and
- unthinkable but not unheard of
- the death of a child at the hands of its own mother.’
- ‘Yet think of other Scots for whom such a remedy would be unthinkable.’
- ‘In such a situation a handshake is unthinkable and a mere waving of one hand is somehow too frivolous.’
- ‘What are the frontlines of defence against such an unthinkable catastrophe?’
- ‘To involve them in a new set of dangers would have been unthinkable.’
- ‘He says the ghoulish graveyard thefts would have been unthinkable in an earlier age.’
- ‘When a team is embroiled in a relegation battle a meagre point never seems quite enough to quench the fear of the unthinkable.’
- ‘Before the event got under way
- that prospect seemed pretty much unthinkable.’
- ‘In its 18 years in power it pressed ahead with previously unthinkable policies.’
- ‘Less than a decade ago such adjoining public events would have been unthinkable.’
- ‘Such draconian measures would be almost unthinkable in a democratic system.’
- ‘Other families with other children
- he says
- have suffered unthinkable loss.’