INCREDIBLE Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

incredible

adjective

(ˌ)in-ˈkre-də-bəl

Definition of incredible

as in incredulous

too extraordinary or improbable to believe tried to explain her weeklong disappearance with an incredible tale of abduction by a total stranger

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Recent Examples of incredible The original impetus for the film, to be honest, was to look at an incredible life story over a long German period. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026 There’s incredible energy in rock right now, and Sonic Temple reflects that. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2026 Over the past month or so, these kinds of unexpected projects have gone viral with incredible frequency thanks to new AI tools, as hobbyists take apart games and then rebuild them for new platforms. — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2026 Damián García, our brilliant cinematographer, lives in Barcelona and our incredible producer Sanne Wohlenberg lives in London, but everyone else, all the department heads, were Los Angeles, if not Angelenos. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for incredible

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Adjective

In a true turn of events that would seem almost incredulous in a Hollywood script, the boss of a now defunct production company that specialized in true crime is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2026
The title comes from a phrase that became part of his creative vocabulary and began appearing in sketches whenever an absurd situation called for a perfectly incredulous response.

— Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of incredulous

Adjective

Dubbed 'Flash Charging,' this allows the Atto 8’s massive 115-kilowatt-hour battery to rocket from a 10% charge up to 70% capacity in an almost unbelievable five minutes.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
What Zoe [Kazan] has done with Steinbeck’s East of Eden is just unbelievable.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of unbelievable

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Friedman began her remarks by reminding the audience of von Furstenberg’s unlikely beginning, born in Brussels to a Holocaust survivor.

— Ariel Bielsky, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026
Dahlia Scheindlin, a veteran pollster who works for left-of-center candidates and parties in Israel, speculated that the number of returning overseas voters was unlikely to be big enough to change the outcome of the election.

— Daniel Brook, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of unlikely

Adjective

Serhii Beskrestnov, a defense technology adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said long-standing restrictions on the civilian system in Ukraine made such offensive use impossible.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
The two versions of Israel that could result are so divergent as to seem impossible to reconcile.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of impossible

Adjective

What happened in that classroom was unimaginable, and like so many in this community, my heart is broken for everyone affected by this tragedy.

— KATU Staff, Baltimore Sun, 22 Oct. 2026
Annour and his family were once part of that wave, fleeing their home in Sudan in 2003, stepping around dead bodies and witnessing unimaginable horror, to escape one in a series of continuing civil wars that have given way to genocide.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of unimaginable

Adjective

But the story of twentieth-century democracy from Watergate to the Pentagon Papers is inconceivable without print.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
Technology, public taste and economic conditions all contributed to its once-inconceivable drastic makeover.

— Rick Nicita, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of inconceivable

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