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INCREDIBLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beyond belief or understanding
Example:
the book's plot is simply incredible
Synonyms:
incredible; unbelievable
Classified under:
Similar:
astounding; dumbfounding; dumfounding (bewildering or striking dumb with wonder)
fabulous (barely credible)
improbable; marvellous; marvelous; tall (too improbable to admit of belief)
undreamed; undreamed of; undreamt; undreamt of; unimagined (not imagined even in a dream)
Also:
flimsy; unconvincing (not convincing)
incredulous (not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving)
implausible (having a quality that provokes disbelief)
unthinkable (incapable of being conceived or considered)
Attribute:
believability; credibility; credibleness (the quality of being believable or trustworthy)
Antonym:
credible (capable of being believed)
Derivation:
incredibility; incredibleness (the quality of being incredible)
Context examples:
“It is incredible to see such low water abundances in the atmospheres of a broad range of planets orbiting a variety of stars,” said Madhusudhan.
(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)
The pulsar's strong magnetic fields generate powerful electric fields that accelerate charged particles near the surface to incredible speeds approaching that of light.
(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)
"The clarity in this trend is stunning, but we don’t yet know whether the new reefs can support the incredible diversity of tropical systems."
(Coral reefs shifting away from equatorial waters, National Science Foundation)
"Tiny young eels accomplish incredible tasks to migrate."
(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)
It is incredible that one narrow magnetic hot spot, the Great Blue Spot, could be responsible for almost all of Jupiter's secular variation, but the numbers bear it out.
(NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field, NASA)
Thousands of years ago, Plato wrote about the civilization, noting that its incredible technological advancements and wealth had no equal and that the city was ultimately destroyed by some terrible event.
(Researchers Claim to Have Found Mythical City of Atlantis in Spain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
With a rapidity which, at the time, seemed incredible, and even afterwards is impossible to realize, the whole aspect of nature at once became convulsed.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It seemed incredible that the next surge should not crush the Ghost down upon the tiny eggshell.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He cannot be the instigator of the three villains in horsemen's greatcoats, by whom she will hereafter be forced into a traveling-chaise and four, which will drive off with incredible speed.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
This incredible haul of newly-discovered breast cancer genes provides us with many more genes to work on, most of which have not been studied before, said Dr Alison Dunning from the University of Cambridge.
(Detailed genetic study provides most comprehensive map of risk to date of breast cancer risk, University of Cambridge)
