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impossibly

adv

Etymology

From impossible + -ly.

  1. inherited from impossible
  2. formed as impossibly — “impossible + -ly”

Definitions

  1. Not possibly

    Not possibly; in an impossible manner.

  2. To the point of impossibility.

    • The topology problem was impossibly difficult.

  3. Contrary to what had been thought possible.

    • Impossibly, after the water receded, the cat was found asleep on a chair jammed in a tree.
    • ANDRÉ SARAIVA, the slight 35-year-old graffitist and night-life entrepreneur, showed up at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in the Marais on a recent Saturday night in his trademark impossibly skinny jeans and a navy Thom Browne peacoat.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for impossibly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA