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impossible | unlike |

As adjectives the difference between impossible and unlike

is that impossible is not possible; not able to be done or happen while unlike is not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance.

As a noun impossible

is {{cx|obsolete|lang=en}} an impossibility.

As a preposition unlike is

differently from; not in a like or similar manner.

As a verb unlike is

to dislike.

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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    unlike

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) unlic, unlich, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance.
    • The brothers are quite unlike each other.
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  • Unequal.
    • They contributed in unlike amounts.
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  • (archaic) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Differently from; not in a like or similar manner.
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  • In contrast with.
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    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (unlik)
  • To dislike.
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  • To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites
    • I unliked the video link after I realized it was making fun of me.
  • * 2009 , , “ On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8:
    • Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like'' button. Toggling off the button results in ''unliking''''' your previously ''liked'' item. Note that this is different from ''disliking'' something, since '''''unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.
  • * 2010 June 25, "TheKorn" (username), " Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook", in rec.games.pinball, Usenet :
    • My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking " stern pinball entirely.