impossible

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not possible

   Not possible; not able to be done or happen.

   • Antonio: What impossible matter will he make easy next? Sebastian: I think he will carry this island home in his pocket and give it his son for an apple. Antonio : And sowing the kernels of it in the sea bring forth more islands.
2. 2

   Very difficult to deal with.

   • You never listen to a word I say – you're impossible!
   • This humidity is impossible.
   • I never met a more impossible girl.
3. 3

   imaginary

   • impossible quantities, or imaginary numbers
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   1. 4

      An impossibility.

      • In fact, to most people, the real impossibles do not seem impossible, or wonderful, or even difficult at all.
      • “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'.
      • For one thing, the Gospel's moral impossibles appear, in this light, not as an objection to Christianity, but as one of its most striking evidences.
   2. 5

      A skateboard trick consisting of a backflip performed in midair.

The neighborhood

• synonymunfeasible
• synonymnonpossible
• synonymunhappenable
• synonymunpossible
• antonympossibleantonym(s) of “not able to be done or happen”
• antonyminevitableantonym(s) of “not able to be done or happen”