1 used to emphasize how good, bad or extreme sth is
SYNINCREDIBLE:
We had an unbelievable (= very good) time in Paris. * Conditions in the prison camp were unbelievable (= very bad). * We get through an unbelievable amount of food each week. * The cold was unbelievable (= it was extremely cold). * It's unbelievable that (= very shocking) they have permitted this trial to go ahead.
2 very difficult to believe and unlikely to be true
SYNINCREDIBLE:
I found the whole story bizarre, not to say unbelievable.
OPPfor sense 2 BELIEVABLE
unbelievably:
unbelievably good / hot / painful / stupid * Unbelievably it actually works.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for unbelievable is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is unbelievable a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, unbelievable is tagged as adjective.
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