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un-believable
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beyond the imagination |
| Synonyms: | astonishing, beyond belief, cockamamie, cockeyed, doubtful, dubious, far-fetched, fishy, flaky*, flimsy*, for the birds, full of holes, harebrained, implausible, impossible, improbable, incogitable, inconceivable, incredible, kooky, lamebrained, open to doubt, outlandish, past belief, phony, preposterous, questionable, reaching, scatterbrained, screwy, staggering, suspect, thick*, thin*, too much*, unconvincing, unimaginable, unsubstantial, unthinkable, weak, won't hold water, won't wash |
| Antonyms: | believable, credible, plausible, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fabulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing, wonderful |
| Synonyms: | 10, A-1, A-OK, aces, astonishing, astounding, awesome, best, breathtaking, cool*, doozie, extravagant, fab, fantastic, fictitious, first-class, greatest, groovy*, immense, inconceivable, incredible, legendary, marvelous, mind-blowing*, out-of-sight, out-of-this-world, outrageous, peachy*, phenomenal, primo, prodigious, rad, remarkable, spectacular, striking, stupendous, super, superb, terrific, top drawer, tops, turn-on, unbelievable, unreal, wicked* |
| Antonyms: | common, normal, ordinary, simple |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fantastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strange, different; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | absurd, artificial, capricious, chimerical, comical, crazy, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, far-fetched, fictional, foolish, foreign, freakish, grotesque, hallucinatory, illusive, imaginative, implausible, incredible, insane, irrational, ludicrous, mad, misleading, nonsensical, odd, out of sight, outlandish, peculiar, phantasmagorical, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, singular, suppositious, unbelievable, unlikely, unreal, wacky*, weird, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | common, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, ordinary, plain, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | far-fetched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard to believe |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, doubtful, dubious, eccentric, fantastic, fishy, forced, hard to swallow, illogical, implausible, improbable, incoherent, inconsequential, incredible, labored, preposterous, queer, recondite, strained, strange, suspicious, unbelievable, unconvincing, unlikely, unnatural, unrealistic |
| Antonyms: | believable, natural, plausible, realistic |
| Main Entry: | flimsy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unconvincing, implausible |
| Synonyms: | assailable, baseless, contemptible, controvertible, fallacious, false, feeble, frivolous, groundless, illogical, improbable, inadequate, inane, inconceivable, incredible, inept, lame, poor, puerile, superficial, thin, transparent, trifling, trivial, unbelievable, ungrounded, unpersuasive, unreasonable, unsatisfactory, unsubstantial, weak, weakly, wishful |
| Antonyms: | convincing, plausible, reasonable, serious, strong |
| Main Entry: | implausible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not likely |
| Synonyms: | doubtful, dubious, far out, farfetched, fishy, flimsy, for the birds, full of holes, impossible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, obscure, problematic, puzzling, reachy, suspect, thin*, too much*, unbelievable, unconvincing, unreasonable, unsubstantial, weak, won't hold water, won't wash |
| Antonyms: | believable, likely, plausible, possibly, probably, reasonable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | improbable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not likely |
| Synonyms: | doubtful, dubious, fanciful, far-fetched, flimsy*, hundred-to-one, iffy, implausible, inconceivable, not expected, outside chance, questionable, rare, slim, slim and none, unbelievable, uncertain, unconvincing, unheard of, unimaginable, unlikely, unsubstantial, weak |
| Antonyms: | believable, likely, ostensible, plausible, possible, probable, tenable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inconceivable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beyond reason, belief |
| Synonyms: | extraordinary, fantastic, incomprehensible, implausible, impossible, improbable, incogitable, incredible, insupposable, mind-boggling, phony, rare, reachy, staggering, strange, thin*, unbelievable, unconvincing, unheard-of, unimaginable, unknowable, unlikely, unsubstantial, unthinkable, weak*, won't fly, won't wash |
| Antonyms: | believable, conceivable, fathomable, imaginable, reasonable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incredible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beyond belief |
| Synonyms: | absurd, far-fetched, fishy, flimsy*, implausible, impossible, improbable, incogitable, inconceivable, insupposable, out of the question, outlandish, phony, preposterous, questionable, ridiculous, rings phony, suspect, thin*, unbelievable, unconvincing, unimaginable, unsubstantial, untenable, unthinkable |
| Notes: | incredible means 'unbelievable' and incredulous means 'unbelieving' |
| Antonyms: | believable, credible, plausible, possible, realistic, tenable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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