Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɪmˈpɒsɪbəl/
impossible
- Not possible; not able to be done or happen.
- 1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, 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.
- 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Nothing is impossible, only impassible.
- 13 March 1962, John F. Kennedy
- 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.
- 1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, scene i:
- (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
- unpossible (rare)
- (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)
- (obsolete) an impossibility
- Late 14th century: “Madame,” quod he, “this were an impossible!” — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
- Spanish: imposible
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