单词 | thinkably |
释义 | > as lemmasˈthinkably ˈthinkably adv. in thought, according to thought; conceivably. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > product of thinking, thought > matter of thought > [adverb] thinkably1903 1903 H. James Ambassadors iv. 59 He judged the quantity as small because it was small, and all the more egregiously so since it couldn't, as he saw the case, so much as thinkably have been larger. 1935 Mind 44 325 For finitists, ‘to exist’ means ‘to be thinkably constructible’. 1966 Listener 9 June 840/3 Death is thinkably of two sorts—(i) the physical break~up of animate entities,..and (ii) our own projected death. 2003 New Yorker 24 Mar. 69/1 Leading composers, he says, ‘never get farther than abstract negation, and take off on an empty, high-spirited trip, through thinkably complex scores, in which nothing actually occurs’. < as lemmas |
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