imaginable

English

Etymology

From Middle English ymaginable, from Latin imāginābilis; equivalent to imagine +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmadʒɪnəbəl/, /-nəbəl/, /ɪˈmadʒnəbəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnəbəl/, /-nəbəl/, /ɪˈmæd͡ʒnəbəl/

Adjective

imaginable (comparative more imaginable, superlative most imaginable)

1. Able to be imagined; conceivable.
   • 2002, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English:

     While running, they were exposed to the most hideous bespawling imaginable.

   • 2015, Ashok Som, Christian Blanckaert, The Road To Luxury:

     By the early 1980s, Gucci was overlicensed, with its logo on every product imaginable from headscarves to key rings to lighters.

   1. Within the realm of consideration.
      • 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 171:

        Nevertheless, even if these forms do not directly go back to Lat. autumnus, influence of this word is imaginable.

Antonyms

• unimaginable

Derived terms

• imaginableness
• imaginably
• inimaginable

Related terms

• imaginability

Translations

able to be imagined; conceivable

• Catalan: imaginable (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可以想像的 (kěyǐ xiǎngxiàng de)

• Czech: představitelný (cs) m
• Esperanto: imagebla
• Finnish: kuviteltavissa oleva
• French: imaginable (fr)
• Galician: imaxinable (gl)
• German: vorstellbar (de)
• Hungarian: képzelhető (hu), elképzelhető (hu)
• Italian: immaginabile (it)
• Japanese: 考えられる (ja) (かんがえられる, kangaerareru), 想像できる (ja) (そうぞうできる, sōzō dekiru)
• Latin: cōgitābilis
• Middle English: ymaginable
• Portuguese: imaginável (pt), concebível
• Russian: вообрази́мый (ru) (voobrazímyj)
• Spanish: imaginable, concebible
• Swedish: tänkbar (sv)
• Turkish: düşünülebilir

Catalan

Etymology

From imaginar +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Adjective

imaginable m or f (masculine and feminine plural imaginables)

1. imaginable

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ma.ʒi.nabl/

Adjective

imaginable (plural imaginables)

1. imaginable

Further reading

• “imaginable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Middle English

Adjective

imaginable

1. alternative form of ymaginable

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imaxiˈnable/ [i.ma.xiˈna.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: i‧ma‧gi‧na‧ble

Adjective

imaginable m or f (masculine and feminine plural imaginables)

1. imaginable, cogitable, conceivable, thinkable

Further reading

• “imaginable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025