impossible
Noun · AdjectiveUS[im-pos-uh-buhl]/ˌɪmˈpɑsəbəl/4 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adjective (3)
- not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with“an impossible dream”“an impossible situation”Opposite possibleSimilar unachievable, out, undecideable, impracticable, hopelessRelates to possibility, possiblenessSee also hopeless, impractical, unrealistic, insurmountable, unthinkable
- totally unlikelySynonyms: inconceivableout of the questionunimaginableOpposite thinkableSimilar unthinkable
- (used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable“impossible behavior”Synonyms: unacceptableOpposite tolerableSimilar intolerable, unbearable
Noun (1)
- something that cannot be done“his assignment verged on the impossible”Type of impossibility, impossible action
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Translations
Adjective not able to be done
- Spanish
- imposible
- French
- impossible
- German
- unmöglich
- Italian
- impossibile
- Portuguese
- impossível
- Turkish
- olanaksız
- Russian
- невозмо́жный nevozmóžnyj
- Arabic
- مُسْتَحِيل mustaḥīl
- Japanese
- 不可能 fukanō
- Dutch
- onmogelijk
21 more languages
- Polish
- niemożliwy
- Swedish
- omöjlig
- Greek
- ακατόρθωτος akatórthotos
- Korean
- 불가능하다 bulganeunghada
- Indonesian
- mustahil
- Vietnamese
- không thể
- Hungarian
- lehetetlen
- Portuguese (PT)
- impossível
- Catalan
- impossible
- Czech
- nemožný
- Danish
- umulig
- Esperanto
- neebla
- Estonian
- võimatu
- Finnish
- mahdoton
- Georgian
- შეუძლებელი šeuʒlebeli
- Icelandic
- ómögulegur
- Norwegian
- umulig
- Romanian
- imposibil
- Scottish Gaelic
- do-dhèanta
- Slovenian
- nemogoč
- Welsh
- amhosibl
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Im·pos′si·ble adjective
Origin: F., fr. L. impossibilis; pref. im- not + possibilis possible. See Possible.
Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible.
With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.— Matt. xix. 26.
Without faith it is impossible to please him.— Heb. xi. 6.
Impossible quantity Mathematics, an imaginary quantity. See Imaginary.
Synonyms: See Impracticable.
Im·pos′si·ble noun
An impossibility; as, he tried to do the impossible. obsolete
“Madam,” quoth he, “this were an impossible!”— Geoffrey Chaucer
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54