inconceivably

adv

inconceivably

adv

Etymology From inconceivable + -ly.

1

In an inconceivable manner, in a way not believable or understandable.

  • Parents are at the cabin doors, dressing the hair of ragged children; shock-heads of girls peer out from the black circumference of smoke, and children inconceivably filthy, yell wildly and vociferously as the coach passes by.1872, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketch-book, volume 2, page 160:
  • Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:

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