Unlikely vs Unpossible - What's the difference?
unlikely | unpossible |
Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising.
Something or somebody considered unlikely.
* 1980 , Robert K. Lindsay, Applications of artificial intelligence for organic chemistry
* 1996 , Laurie R. King, To Play the Fool
* 2001 , Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Marci Shimoff, Chicken soup for the mother's soul 2 (page 166)
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 .
As adjectives the difference between unlikely and unpossible
is that unlikely is not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected while unpossible is impossible.As an adverb unlikely
is in an improbable manner.As a noun unlikely
is something or somebody considered unlikely.unlikely
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- It's very unlikely that you'll be able to walk perfectly after being in a cast for six months.
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor.
- unlikely means
Noun
(unlikelies)- The molecular ion candidates are divided by the testing phase into three categories: rejects, unlikelies , and probables. Differences between each candidate and the prominent peaks in the spectrum are computed.
- "Here is my every possible phone number, plus a few unlikelies . And I've also put down the numbers of Karin and Wade, in case you've lost them. Karin can come anytime; Wade, up until six in the morning."
- Then the most unlikely of unlikelies happened. We got another phone call. Another woman wanted to give us a baby—a boy, born just that morning. We walked into a hospital, and he was placed into my arms.