Antonyms for impossibly


Grammar : Adv
Spell : im-pos-uh-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpɒs ə bəl


Definition of impossibly

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French impossible, from Latin impossibilis "not possible," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + possibilis (see possible). Related: Impossibly.
  • As in hopelessly : adv giving small ground for hope
Example sentences :
  • Lockwood, not impossibly, would have said it was 'to do a bit of walking' he had come.
  • Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
  • Not impossibly the newspapers, though I suspect they did not employ the familiarity you speak of.
  • Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
  • There was a haunting familiarity about the impossibly beautiful features.
  • Extract from : « The Ideal » by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
  • The impossibly corpulent one, Don Mathers vaguely recognized.
  • Extract from : « Medal of Honor » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
  • If, as you say, you have lived for centuries impossibly, how have you done it?
  • Extract from : « The Wizard's Son, Vol. 2(of 3) » by Margaret Oliphant
  • It climbed at an impossibly steep slant, rushing up from the earth.
  • Extract from : « First on the Moon » by Jeff Sutton
  • Do not fill the bags anything like full, or the quilt will be impossibly heavy.
  • Extract from : « Needlework Economies » by Various
  • I closed the studio that afternoon—the weather was impossibly hot.
  • Extract from : « The Trial of Callista Blake » by Edgar Pangborn
  • When one was a girl it had seemed so impossibly dull to be thirty.
  • Extract from : « Lady Cassandra » by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
  • Believe everything that you hear said of the world, nothing is too impossibly bad.
  • Extract from : « Father Goriot » by Honore de Balzac

Synonyms for impossibly

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