Impossible

Quick meaning: Impossible is an adjective meaning Not possible; not able to be done or happen.

Meaning

Not possible; not able to be done or happen.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial) Very difficult to deal with.
2. (mathematics, dated) imaginary
3. An impossibility.
4. A skateboard trick consisting of a backflip performed in midair.

Example Sentences

You never listen to a word I say – you're impossible!

It is difficult, if not impossible, to memorize 20,000 consecutive numbers.

Sarah thinks that nothing is impossible because things can always somehow happen.

13 March 1962, John F. Kennedy, speech at the White House Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Word Forms

• impossibles

Synonyms for impossible

Depending on context, synonyms include unfeasible, nonpossible, unhappenable, unpossible, hopeless, intolerable.

Antonyms for impossible

Common opposites include possible, inevitable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unachievable, unattainable, unrealizable, impracticable, unimaginable, inconceivable.

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