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Impossible vs Hectic - What's the difference?

impossible | hectic |

As adjectives the difference between impossible and hectic

is that impossible is not possible; not able to be done or happen while hectic is pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.

As nouns the difference between impossible and hectic

is that impossible is an impossibility while hectic is (obsolete) a hectic fever.

impossible

English

Alternative forms

* inpossible (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not possible; not able to be done or happen.
  • * 1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
    • Nothing is impossible , only impassible.
  • * 13 March 1962 ,
    • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible , there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
  • (colloquial, of a person) Very difficult to deal with.
  • (math, dated) imaginary
    • impossible quantities, or imaginary numbers

    Related terms

    * impossibility * impossibly

    Synonyms

    * (l) (rare)

    Antonyms

    * (not able to be done or happen) possible, inevitable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an impossibility
  • * Late 14th century': “Madame,” quod he, “this were an '''impossible !” — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, ''Canterbury Tales

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    hectic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hectick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.
    • hectic''' fever; a '''hectic patient
  • Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.
    • The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds

    Synonyms

    * feverish

    Derived terms

    * hectically

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A hectic fever.
  • (obsolete) A flush like one produced by such a fever.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.147:
    • For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills [...].

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