inconceivably

English

Etymology

From inconceivable +‎ -ly.

Adverb

inconceivably (comparative more inconceivably, superlative most inconceivably)

  1. In an inconceivable manner, in a way not believable or understandable.
    • 1872, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketch-book, volume 2, page 160:
      Parents are at the cabin doors, dressing the hair of ragged children; shock-heads of girls peer out from the black circumference of smoke, and children inconceivably filthy, yell wildly and vociferously as the coach passes by.
    • 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:
      Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
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