incredible – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of incredible

Adjective: incredible

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore incredible
Superlativemost incredible

Sample Sentences

  • The extinction of a species once so numerous seemed incredible. [1955, A. W. Schorger, The Passenger Pigeon: Its Natural History and Extinction, →ISBN, page vii:]
  • I get lost in what is credible and not credible. This whole thing gets so incredible when you consider wiping out whole nations, it is difficult to establish credibility. [1980 September 16, Senator John Glenn, quoted in William A. Schwartz et al., The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn’t Matter—And What Does, University of California Press (1990, 1993), page 29]
  • The other may be that they sincerely believed it to be true, demonstrating an almost incredible lack of communication between themselves and their working engineers. [1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President:]
  • He therefore found revealed religion incredible in a literal sense, and, as Bayle had done before him, he radically separated morality from the practice of organized religion. [2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 796:]
  • He was so wrapped up in watching the incredible special effects that he couldn't keep track of the story.
  • I had such an incredible slice of pizza last night that I simply can't think about anything else.

Etymology

From Middle English incredible, from Latin incrēdibilis (“that cannot be believed”), from in- (“not”) + crēdibilis (“worthy of belief”), from crēdō (“believe”), equivalent to in- + credible. See: Latin Adjectives 'incrēdibilis'.

Verbs referencing "incredible"

Portuguese Adjectives incrível.