# incredible

Pronunciation: US say "in-KRED-uh-buhl" /ɪŋˈkɹɛdəbəl/; UK say "in-KRED-i-buhl" /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbəl/

## Adjective

1. Extraordinary enough to cause amazement; amazingly good, great, or large.
   - Simple: Very surprising and amazing, often because something is so good or so big.
   - _The team's comeback in the final minutes was incredible._
   - _Visitors describe the cathedral's vaulted interior as absolutely incredible._
2. Too implausible to be believed; beyond what one can accept as true.
   - Simple: So hard to believe that it seems impossible to be true.
   - _The witness offered an incredible account that the jury dismissed outright._
   - _Sales figures that high seemed incredible to the auditors._

## Origin

Latin crēdō ("believe") gave crēdibilis ("worthy of belief"), and adding in- ("not") to that produced incrēdibilis ("that cannot be believed"), which Middle English took over as incredible.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/incredible (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).