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by no stretch

by no stretch is the alternative form of by no stretch of the imagination.

Meaning of by no stretch of the imagination

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Synonym of by no means: certainly not, definitely not, not by any means.
    Synonyms:
    by no means
  2. (idiomatic) Synonym of in no way: never ever, not for any reason; in no sense.
    Synonyms:
    in no way

Origin of by no stretch

An ellipsis of by no stretch of the imagination (“inconceivable”).

Questions about by no stretch

What is by no stretch the alternative form of?
By no stretch is the alternative form of by no stretch of the imagination.

Words near by no stretch in the dictionary

  1. by name
  2. by nature
  3. by night
  4. by no manner of means
  5. by no means
  6. by no stretch
  7. by no stretch of imagination
  8. by no stretch of the imagination
  9. by now
  10. by numbers
  11. by one's lights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: by no stretch (page history and authors); by no stretch of the imagination (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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