Definition of "out of the question" []

• Impossible to even contemplate (adjective)

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• "Reopening her old store was out of the question since the building had been sold for redevelopment, but Sylvia had invited her to open a shop within Elm Creek Manor, or she could probably find a vacancy downtown, a few blocks away from her old location."
• "But swimming was out of the question for men who would emerge on the Sicilian shore naked and dripping and into the arms of Verress soldiers, if they would emerge at all."
• "Marriage made things more difficult, of course, and was out of the question until one either took Orders or received a hefty promotion; not that marriage was forbidden, rather that housing a wife and offspring in a roomlet was a daunting prospect."