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impossible
adjective as in beyond the bounds of possibility
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absurd, futile, hopeless, impassable, impractical, inaccessible, inconceivable, insurmountable, preposterous, unattainable, unimaginable, unreasonable, unthinkable, unworkable, useless
Strong match
Weak matches
beyond, contrary to reason, cureless, hardly possible, hundred-to-one, impervious, impracticable, inexecutable, infeasible, irrealizable, irreparable, no-go, no-win, not a prayer, out of the question, too much, unachievable, uncorrectable, unfeasible, unobtainable, unrecoverable, way-out
adjective as in intolerable, ungovernable
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absurd, hopeless, ludicrous, outrageous, preposterous, unacceptable, unreasonable
Strong matches
Weak matches
egregious, improper, incongruous, objectionable, unanswerable, unsuitable
Example Sentences
“I kind of taught myself to get used to it and ignore it, but the week of the election it became utterly impossible to just ignore it.”
As a career journalist, it will always be impossible for me to reckon with this.
Brown’s survival and willingness to talk to law enforcement helped ensure the case was impossible to ignore, Gyamfi said.
It is impossible to think any of those players would not want to have completed such important games.
They’re going for a kind of holiday-themed “Mission: Impossible” or “Jason Bourne” vibe, which is lightly amusing for all of five minutes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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