Unpossible vs Impossible - What's the difference?
unpossible | impossible |
Impossible.
*1526 , William Tyndale, New Testament , British Library 2000, p. 119:
*:And this is the. vj. moneth to her, which was called barren, for with god shall nothinge be unpossible .
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.280:
*:’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many, unpossible to apprehend all.
*1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p.97:
*:In the evening we fired a few rackets, which flying in the ayre so terrified the poore Salvages, they supposed nothing unpossible we attempted […].
*1994 , The Simpsons , "(Lisa on Ice)":
*:Ralph Wiggum: Me fail English? That's unpossible !
*2008 , David Goldberg, Mimecast , "meeting with HKS":
*:I think we can all agree that this is unpossible .
Not possible; not able to be done or happen.
* 1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
* 13 March 1962 ,
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(math, dated) imaginary
an impossibility
* Late 14th century': “Madame,” quod he, “this were an '''impossible !” — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, ''Canterbury Tales
Impossible is a synonym of unpossible.
As adjectives the difference between unpossible and impossible
is that unpossible is impossible while impossible is not possible; not able to be done or happen.As a noun impossible is
{{cx|obsolete|lang=en}} an impossibility.unpossible
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Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
In modern use, the term is usually considered non-standard.impossible
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Alternative forms
* inpossible (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Nothing is impossible , only impassible.
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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.}}
- impossible quantities, or imaginary numbers