Impossible

Adjective

 * 1) Not possible, not able to be done.
 * Nothing is impossible, only impassible. --Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
 * It is difficult, if not impossible, to memorise 20,000 consecutive numbers.
 * 1)  Of a person, very difficult to deal with.
 * You never listen to a word I say - you're impossible!

Antonyms

 * possible

Derived terms

 * impossibility
 * impossibly

Noun

 * 1) An impossibility.
 * 2) * Late C14: “Madame,” quod he, “this were an impossible!” — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
 * 3)  (with definite article) That which seems impossible.
 * If we work together, we can achieve the impossible!

Adverbs for Impossible
highly; probably; practically; altogether; presumably; allegedly; obviously; manifestly; evidently; naturally; hopelessly; desperately; wildly; utterly; absurdly.

Thesaurus
I refuse, I will not, absurd, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, antic, barred, by no means, cardinal, closed-out, contrary to reason, count me out, crazy, cureless, decimal, differential, digital, even, exceptionable, excluded, exponential, fanciful, fantastic, farcical, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, hopeless, illogical, imaginary, immedicable, impair, impracticable, impractical, inadmissible, include me out, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, incurable, indefensible, infeasible, infinite, integral, intolerable, irrational, irremediable, irreparable, logarithmic, logically impossible, logometric, ludicrous, negative, no, no go, not likely, not possible, nothing doing, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, objectionable, odd, ordinal, outlandish, outrageous, oxymoronic, pair, paradoxical, positive, possible, preposterous, prime, prohibited, radical, rational, real, reciprocal, ridiculous, ruled-out, self-contradictory, submultiple, surd, transcendental, unacceptable, unaccountable, unachievable, unattainable, unbelievable, uncorrectable, undesirable, unexpected, unfeasible, unimaginable, unobtainable, unrealizable, unreasonable, unsolvable, unsuitable, untenable, unthinkable, unworkable, weird

Alternative forms

 * inpossible

Etymology
From French impossible, from Latin impossibilis, from in- ‘not’ + possibilis ‘possible’, from possum ‘to be able’ + suffix -ibilis ‘-able’.

Adjective

 * Arabic: مستحيل
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 不可能
 * Croatian:, nemoguće, nije moguće
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi: असंभव or असम्भव, नामुमकिन, अनहोनी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: impossibile


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Lithuanian: neįmanoma
 * Malay:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: nunpussaivel
 * Russian: невозможный
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:, nemogoča , nemogoče
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Urdu: اسمبھو, ناممکن, ان ہونی


 * Catalan:, insuportable
 * Croatian:, nepodnošljiv, neizdrživ
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,


 * German:
 * Interlingua: insupportabile
 * Italian: ,
 * Slovene:, nemogoča , nemogoče
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * Catalan: impossible


 * Italian: impossibile (2)