impossible
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English impossible.
Pronunciation Adjectiveimpossible (not comparable)
- Not possible; not able to be done or happen.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene i]:
- 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.
- 13 March 1962, John F. Kennedy, speech at the White House
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- It is difficult, if not impossible, to memorize 20,000 consecutive numbers.
- Sarah thinks that nothing is impossible because things can always somehow happen.
- (colloquial, of a person) Very difficult to deal with.
- You never listen to a word I say – you're impossible!
- (math, dated) imaginary
- impossible quantities, or imaginary numbers
- unfeasible
- nonpossible (nonstandard)
- unhappenable (rare)
- unpossible (rare)
- (antonym(s) of “not able to be done or happen”): possible, inevitable
- French: impossible
- German: unmöglich
- Italian: impossibile
- Portuguese: impossível
- Russian: невозмо́жный
- Spanish: imposible
- French: insupportable, impossible
- German: unmöglich
- Italian: insopportabile, impossibile
- Portuguese: impossível, insuportável
- Russian: нереальный
- Spanish: insoportable
- French: impossible
- German: unmöglich
- Italian: impossibile
- Portuguese: impossível
- Russian: несбыточный
- Spanish: imposible
impossible (plural impossibles)
- An impossibility.
- A skateboard trick consisting of a backflip performed in midair.
- Italian: impossibile (2)
- Spanish: imposible
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