INCREDIBLE
ADJECTIVES
► ANCHOR SPREADABLE incredible → 2016 Cockney rhyming sl. (Bk.)
► BEYOND THE BEYOND unexpected, incredible, out of the way → 1898 N. Ireland (Bk.)
► BEYON’-THE-BEYONT quite incredible; quite out of the way → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► OUT OF ALL REASON quite absurd or incredible → 1887 Sc.
► TERATICAL relating to marvels or prodigies; incredible, wonderful, miraculous → 1722
► UNBELIEFFUL incredible ..1388 obs.
► UNBELIEVED unbelievable, incredible → c1425 obs.
► UNCREDIBLE very great and incredible → c1440 obs.
► UNDEEMIS ► UNDEEMOUS ► UNDOMIOUS ► UNDOOMIS ► UNDUMIOUS ► UNDUMOUS unparalleled, extraordinary, remarkable, incredible, esp. of size or amount, inconceivably large, immense, incalculable → a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► UNLEFLICH incredible → a1225 obs.
NOUNS
► LATA anything incredible (pronounced ‘lah-tah’) → Amer. World War I sl.
► ONE FOR THE BOOK anything noteworthy, remarkable, or incredible; something worthy of long-term record → 1920s US sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► MIND-BLOWER an incredible or fantastic person → 1968 sl.
PHRASES
► THAT’S CLOSE that’s untrue, incredible; that’s unbelievable → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
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