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UK
/ɪmpˈɒsəbli/
]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɑsəbɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɑsəbɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
to a degree impossible of achievement
impossibly far from sources of supply
long thought to be an impossibly difficult operation
How To Use impossibly In A Sentence
- Support from the landed classes was maintained only by an impossibly complex and grossly unfair system of taxation. THE FOUR NATIONS: A History of the United Kingdom
- In fact, it is easy to run out of superlatives for a gig as good as this and I defy anyone to emerge disappointed by what they have seen and heard - these guys are in danger of setting themselves some impossibly high standards.
- Few human pursuits can conjure up such overblown expectations, fanned by holiday brochure photo-spreads showing impossibly white beaches domed by suspiciously azure skies.
- A blanket ban on western reporters makes the getting of hard information almost impossibly difficult.
- She looked like a graceful winter fairy - a model - a princess - a… he couldn't even find the right words to describe her she was so impossibly beautiful.
- Handing down the legal equivalent of a rap on the knuckles, Judge Teare said the public might see his compassion as "impossibly lenient", but explained he had been swung by the moral standing of those arraigned before him, as set out by counsel of the defence in mitigation. Hugh Muir's diary
- (_And with a weary gesture he points to the orchids, as though they were things of which, not impossibly, "posies" might be made_.) Angels & Ministers
- Vega is seen here as vicious and impossibly vain, but not quite the psycho nutjob of the Japanese anime movie.
- A highlight will be British Pop artist Allen Jones's "Soft Tread" (1966-1967), a colorful painting giving a profile view of a woman's feet, legs and bottom erotically gartered with laced hosiery and impossibly-high stilettos. Selling Sex at Auction
- He looked impossibly handsome in his formal suit.