Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- not possible; unable to be, exist, happen, etc.
- unable to be done, performed, effected, etc.: an impossible assignment.
- incapable of being true, as a rumor.
- not to be done, endured, etc., with any degree of reason or propriety: an impossible situation.
- utterly impracticable: an impossible plan.
- hopelessly unsuitable, difficult, or objectionable.
adjective
- incapable of being done, undertaken, or experienced
- incapable of occurring or happening
- absurd or inconceivable; unreasonableit’s impossible to think of him as a bishop
- informal intolerable; outrageousthose children are impossible
late 14c., from Old French impossible, from Latin impossibilis “not possible,” from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + possibilis (see possible). Related: Impossibly.