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OUT OF THE QUESTION
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Totally unlikely
Synonyms:
impossible; inconceivable; out of the question; unimaginable
Classified under:
Similar:
unthinkable (incapable of being conceived or considered)
Context examples:
Domestic happiness is out of the question.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Quite out of the question, quite out of the question, he replied;—but you must often wish it, I am sure.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But of course it is out of the question that Johnson should thrash Wolf Larsen.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The crags above us were not merely perpendicular, but curved outwards at the top, so that ascent was out of the question.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I love the dear boy, as I always have, and am immensely proud of him, but as for anything more, it's out of the question.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And as for dancing, do not mention it, I beg; that is quite out of the question.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
That is out of the question.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
To agitate him thus deeply, by a resistance he so abhorred, was cruel: to yield was out of the question.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It is out of the question.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But however, all that is quite out of the question—not to be thought of or mentioned—as to any attachment you know—it never could be—all that is gone by.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
