Meaning of impossible | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not possible; not able to be done or happen.
   not-comparable, usually
2. unable
3. Very difficult to deal with.
   colloquial, not-comparable, usually
4. out of the question
5. imaginary
   dated, not-comparable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“It was impoſſible that the queen of France [Marie Antoinette] ſhould not be deeply affected by a conteſt, which ſo cloſely involved her neareſt and deareſt connections, and threatened ſo immediate and perhaps irreparable a breach of the harmony and friendſhip ſubſiſting between them.”

“ALICE: I'm looking for a White Rabbit.... So if you don't mind. (Alice looks through the key hole) There he is - I simply must get through DOORKNOB: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassable. ALICE: You mean impossible. DOORKNOB: No, IMPASSABLE - NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE.”

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

“Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.”

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

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

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

“This humidity is impossible.”

“I never met a more impossible girl.”

“impossible quantities, or imaginary numbers”

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