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English
Etymology
From Middle English uncredible, equivalent to un- + credible.
Adjective
uncredible (comparative more uncredible, superlative most uncredible)
- Not credible; that cannot be believed.
a parade of uncredible witnesses
1627, John Speed, “Cornwall”, in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged. , London: Georg Humble , →OCLC, signature , verso, paragraph 3:The Soile for the moſt part is lifted vp into many hilles, parted aſunder vvith narrovv and ſhort vallies, and a ſhallovv earth doth couer their out-ſide, vvhich by a Sea-vveede called Orevvood, and a certaine kinde of fruitfull Sea-ſand, they make ſo ranke and batten, as is vncredible.
Translations
not credible; that cannot be believed
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