INCONCEIVABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inconceivably mean? 

• INCONCEIVABLY (adverb)
  The adverb INCONCEIVABLY has 1 sense:

1. to an inconceivable degree

  Familiarity information: INCONCEIVABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCONCEIVABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an inconceivable degree

Context example:

inconceivably small

Pertainym:

inconceivable (totally unlikely)

 Context examples 

And I must say, that its being for you has raised him inconceivably in my opinion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

What you admit, sir, or what you do not admit, is really of inconceivably small importance.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A thick, black cloud swirled before my eyes, and my mind told me that in this cloud, unseen as yet, but about to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In fact, so inconceivably rapid were his movements, and so closely were the Indians tangled together, that they shot one another with the arrows; and one young hunter, hurling a spear at Buck in mid air, drove it through the chest of another hunter with such force that the point broke through the skin of the back and stood out beyond.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

You will realize as you read it, my dear Mr. McArdle, and possibly for the first time that the paper has not sent me on a wild-goose chase, and that there is inconceivably fine copy waiting for the world whenever we have the Professor's leave to make use of it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)