impossible
//ɪmˈpɒs.ɪ.bəl//
Forms
- Comparative
- more impossible
- Superlative
- most impossible
- Plural
- impossibles
Definitions
1.Not possible; not able to be done or happen.
- It is difficult, if not impossible, to memorize 20,000 consecutive numbers.
- Sarah thinks that nothing is impossible because things can always somehow happen.
2.Very difficult to deal with.(colloquial)
- I never met a more impossible girl.
- You never listen to a word I say – you're impossible!
1.An impossibility.
- In fact, to most people, the real impossibles do not seem impossible, or wonderful, or even difficult at all.
- Yes, the church lives for impossibles, and she lives by impossibles, and if she shrinks from impossibles her own vigor will shrink and die.
- “Ye can't expect impossibles, and Jim hadn't no idee o' takin' yer trunk along of him in ther buggy when he kem hyar this mornin'.
2.A skateboard trick consisting of a backflip performed in midair.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1627
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English impossible, equivalent to im- + possible.