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out of the question

out of the question adjective: not remotely possible.

Adjective

out of the question (comparative more out of the question, superlative most out of the question)

  1. (idiomatic) Not remotely possible.
    • A second special was out of the question, as the ordinary local service was already somewhat deranged by the first.1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost Special
    • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been...1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    unthinkable

out of the question meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

out of the question in Bengali

একেবারেই অসম্ভব

out of the question in Malayalam

impracticable, impossible, unfeasible
നടപ്പില്ലാത്ത, അസാദ്ധ്യമായ, അസംഭവ്യം, നടക്കാത്ത, നടപ്പാക്കാൻ പറ്റാത്ത, അപ്രായോഗികമായ

Synonyms of out of the question

Forms of out of the question

comparativemore out of the question
superlativemost out of the question

Questions about out of the question

What does out of the question mean?
Out of the question means not remotely possible.
What is out of the question in Bengali?
Out of the question in Bengali is একেবারেই অসম্ভব. See Out of the question meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is out of the question?
Out of the question is an adjective.

Words near out of the question in the dictionary

  1. out of the money
  2. out of the mouths of babes
  3. out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
  4. out of the ordinary
  5. out of the picture
  6. out of the question
  7. out of the running
  8. out of the side of one's mouth
  9. out of the starting gate
  10. out of the way
  11. out of the window

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out of the question (page history and authors); out of the question (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); out of the question (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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