thinkable

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Able to be thought or imagined; conceivable.
    — “Nothing can separate us; not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not threats, not even sin, not the thinkable or unthinkable can get between us,” it reads.
  2. Morally acceptable or legal. rare

词形变化

more thinkable comparative most thinkable superlative

词汇关系

反义词
unthinkable
衍生词
thinkability thinkableness thinkably

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *þankijan
Old English þenċan
Middle English thinken
English think
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English thinkable
From think + -able.
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