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impossible
/ɪmˈpɑ.sə.bəl/
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What does impossible mean?
adjective
- Not possible; not able to be done or happen.
- Very difficult to deal with.
noun
- An impossibility.
More meanings (2)
noun
- A skateboard trick consisting of a backflip performed in midair.
adjective
- (dated) imaginary
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪmˈpɑ.sə.bəl/
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He would naturally say to himself, it is impossible that all this vehement and pathetic declamation can be without some colorable pretext.
But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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The contents of her gray telescope were becoming untidy, and it seemed impossible to keep one’s face and hands clean in Chicago.
National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.
He recalled his visions of broken-bladed glory, but in the shadow of the impending tumult he suspected them to be impossible pictures.