impossible

Examples

• All

• It was impossible not to love Felix.

  Saltburn (2023)

• Do we want to promote an impossible free market?

• And those jobs were made impossible by what they went through.

• So again, it's not impossible, but it's much more difficult.

• This one makes sense, but is impossible and wrong.

• I decided it was impossible.

  Anna Karenina (2012)

• We live in a hamlet world with impossible choices.

• I've given you one impossible task after another.

  Paths of Glory (1957)

• Dealing with other clerks' offices is sometimes impossible, but his place runs like no other office in the world.

  Academic text (2011)

• Programs such as Reach Out Mbyua are often described as "unique" or "impossible to duplicate."

  Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

U

unacceptable

vsimpossible

256 3.2

Not good enough or not allowed by rules

is about being very hard or unreasonable to deal with, not only rule failure

I

intractable

vsimpossible

22 8.7

Hard to manage, change, or control

is focused on being unreasonable to deal with rather than mere resistance

U

unswallowable

vsimpossible

9.3

Too hard or unpleasant to accept

is about being very difficult or unreasonable to deal with rather than mere acceptability

U

unappeasable

vsimpossible

8.4

Impossible to calm or satisfy

is about being unreasonable to handle rather than just refusing calm or satisfaction

Antonyms

R

reasonable

302 2.2

A moderate amount or size that is not extreme

Compounds

I

impossible dream

4 6.8

A hope for something you cannot achieve

M

mission impossible

• Informal

3 7.2

A task that is so difficult people think it cannot be done

How Difficult

impossible

108 3.3

difficult

386 2.1

unreasonable

125 3.0

troublesome

49 3.9

manageable

57 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology