impossible
About 51.66 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Not possible; not able to be done or happen.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to memorize 20,000 consecutive numbers.
- adjective Very difficult to deal with.
You never listen to a word I say – you're impossible!
- adjective imaginary
impossible quantities, or imaginary numbers
- noun An impossibility.
- noun A skateboard trick consisting of a backflip performed in midair.
Similar words
unachievable unattainable unrealizable impracticable unimaginable inconceivable out of the question unthinkable unfeasible undoable
Often followed by
to for that in not and without task or
Word family
impossibleness impossiblenesses
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