unbelievable
/ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/
unbelievable adjective: not to be believed.
Adjective
unbelievable (comparative more unbelievable or (rare, nonstandard) unbelievabler, superlative most unbelievable or (rare, nonstandard) unbelievablest)
- Not to be believed.
- ‘Come on, girls,’ said Steve, ‘be honest, we won.’ / ‘Yeah,’ said Raymond, ‘we let you off because you’re girls.’ / ‘You’re unbelievable,’ said Liz. / ‘Well, if we’re unbelievable,’ said Steve, ‘then you’re unbelievabler.’1996, Colin Thompson, “Four Pigeons”, in Venus the Caterpillar and Further Wild Stories, London: Hodder Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 24
- Synonyms:
- beyond belief, incredible, noncredible
- Antonyms:
- believable, credible
- Amazing, astonishing; so surprising that one is almost, or figuratively, unable to believe.
- The most unbelievable thing happened to me today!
- This restaurant makes unbelievable pizza!
- Synonyms:
- incredible
- Implausible or improbable.
- His excuse seems rather unbelievable.
- Synonyms:
- improbable, infeasible, unlikely
unbelievable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
unbelievable in Hindi
- unbelievable
- अविश्वासनीय aviśvāsnīya
unbelievable in Tamil
- நம்ப முடியாதது
unbelievable in Urdu
- حیرت انگیز, ناقابل یقین
unbelievable in Bengali
- অবিশ্বাস্য
More languagesFewer languages
- unbelievable in Telugu
- నమ్మలేని nammalēni
- unbelievable in Malayalam
- അവിശ്വസനീയമായ, അവിശ്വാസ്യ, വിശ്വസിക്കത്തക്കതല്ലാത്ത, വിശ്വാസസാദ്ധ്യമല്ലാത്ത
- unbelievable in Kannada
- ಅವಿಶ್ವಾಸದ, ನಂಬಲಾಗದ, ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯಕರ, ಅತಿಶಯದ
- unbelievable in Gujarati
- અવિશ્વસનીય
- unbelievable in Arabic
- لا يصدق
Examples of unbelievable in a sentence
- Whether you want the unbelievablest sheer of chiffon . . . or the most durable of service weight . . .1932 February 6, Virginia Chumley, “Visits with Virginia”, in The Chattanooga News, volume XLIV, number 189, Chattanooga, Tenn., →ISSN...
- In other words—join the gpo and hear the world; have fun; talk to the wildest, craziest, simply unbelievablest people.1967, New Society, volume 9, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 680, column 1:
- The unbelievablest (to coin a word) thing about this animation is the fact that it is generated in real time, like a video game!2010 March 9, Emily Lakdawalla, “Unbelievably spectacular flight through Candor Chasma”, in The Planetary Society, Pasadena, Calif....
Synonyms of unbelievable
Antonyms
Forms of unbelievable
| comparative | more unbelievable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unbelievable |
| comparative (nonstandard, rare) | unbelievabler |
| superlative (nonstandard, rare) | unbelievablest |
Origin of unbelievable
From un- + believable.
Words formed from unbelievable
Questions about unbelievable
- What does unbelievable mean?
- Unbelievable means not to be believed.
- What is unbelievable in Hindi?
- Unbelievable in Hindi is अविश्वासनीय (aviśvāsnīya). See Unbelievable meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use unbelievable in a sentence?
- Whether you want the unbelievablest sheer of chiffon . . . or the most durable of service weight . . .
- What part of speech is unbelievable?
- Unbelievable is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unbelievable?
- Unbelievable is pronounced /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/.
Words near unbelievable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unbelievable (page history and authors); अविश्वासनीय (Hindi) (page history and authors); unbelievable (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unbelievable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Unbelievable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unbelievable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unbelievable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unbelievable (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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