What is another word for impossible?
Pronunciation:
[ ɪmpˈɒsəbə͡l], [ ɪmpˈɒsəbəl], [ ɪ_m_p_ˈɒ_s_ə_b_əl]
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Similar words for impossible:
- absurd (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- beyond the bounds of possibility (adjective)
- contrarious (adjective)
- embarrassing (adjective)
- exaggerated (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- implausible (adjective)
- impractical/impracticable (adjective)
- inconceivable (adjective)
- incredible (adjective)
- incurable (adjective)
- indescribable (adjective)
- ineffable (adjective)
- insufferable (adjective)
- insupportable (adjective)
- intolerable, ungovernable (adjective)
- irreparable (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- out (adjective)
- out of the question (adjective)
- preposterous (adjective)
- ridiculous (adjective)
- starry-eyed (adjective)
- tall (adjective)
- unbelievable (adjective)
- unconceivable (adjective)
- unendurable (adjective)
- unfeasible (adjective)
- unimaginable (adjective)
- unnegotiable (adjective)
- unrealistic (adjective)
- unsufferable (adjective)
- unsupportable (adjective)
- unthinkable (adjective)
- unusable (adjective)
- unworkable (adjective)
- utopian (adjective)
- fat chance (noun)
- impossible (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- awkward
- impassable
- indescribable
- inestimable
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Impossible:
adj.
• absurd (adjective)- anachronistic,
- senseless,
- ludicrous,
- silly,
- bizarre,
- absurd,
- idiotic,
- paradoxical,
- inane,
- self-contradictory,
- stupid,
- crazy,
- farcical,
- foolish,
- irrational,
- meaningless,
- eccentric,
- illogical,
- nonsensical,
- contradictory,
- outlandish,
- fallacious,
- incongruous,
- inconsistent,
- invalid.
- hardly possible,
- contrary to reason,
- impassable,
- no-win,
- no-way,
- unattainable,
- Inexecutable,
- uncorrectable,
- hopeless,
- futile,
- hundred-to-one,
- infeasible,
- useless,
- unachievable,
- irrealizable,
- too much,
- Cureless,
- unimaginable,
- beyond,
- impervious,
- visionary,
- unrecoverable,
- unreasonable,
- unobtainable,
- way out,
- insurmountable.
- more compromising,
- most bewildering,
- dis agreeable,
- most discommodious,
- in commodious,
- in-convenient,
- dis-agreeable,
- dis-concerting,
- be wildering,
- un-easiest,
- most discomfiting,
- in-commodious,
- un-easy,
- unpropitious,
- in convenient,
- un comfortable,
- dis-commodious,
- un-comfortable,
- un-propitious,
- more disconcerting,
- more discomfiting,
- most rattling,
- un-easier,
- most discommoding,
- more distracting,
- un seemliest,
- un-seemly,
- more rattling,
- most disconcerting,
- most mortifying,
- most compromising,
- in-opportune,
- dis commodious,
- un easy,
- more exasperating,
- up-setting,
- up setting,
- un easiest,
- ex-asperating,
- more discommodious,
- un seemly,
- inconvenient,
- un seemlier,
- un propitious,
- troubling,
- most exasperating,
- be-wildering,
- un-seemlier,
- in opportune,
- most distracting,
- un easier,
- ex asperating,
- more bewildering,
- uneasy,
- more mortifying,
- dis concerting,
- most troubling,
- un-seemliest,
- more discommoding,
- more troubling.
- sensational,
- out of proportion,
- highly colored,
- too-too,
- over-wrought,
- overkill,
- hammy,
- pretentious,
- hyperbolic,
- overestimated,
- caricatural,
- schmaltzy.
- shot down,
- beyond recall,
- unmitigable,
- helpless,
- irremediable,
- past hope,
- up the creek,
- irredeemable,
- goner,
- in despair.
- for birds,
- wont hold water,
- re achy,
- wont wash,
- un-reasonable,
- un-convincing,
- full holes,
- re achiest,
- re-achier,
- re-achy,
- un reasonable,
- un-substantial,
- reachier,
- un convincing,
- full of holes,
- re-achiest,
- re achier,
- un substantial,
- reachiest.
- un-serviceable,
- un-wiser,
- non-viable,
- in efficacious,
- un attainable,
- in-feasible,
- most nogo,
- more ivory tower,
- most unbusinesslike,
- un-attainable,
- in-operable,
- more no go,
- most ivorytower,
- more unserviceable,
- un businesslike,
- most inoperable,
- non functional,
- in operable,
- more unbusinesslike,
- more impracticable,
- ivorytower,
- more ivorytower,
- most nonfunctional,
- un-wisest,
- in applicable,
- more infeasible,
- un wise,
- most unserviceable,
- most nonviable,
- non viable,
- most no-go,
- more inoperable,
- wont fly,
- more nogo,
- un-businesslike,
- in-efficacious,
- more nonviable,
- most ivory tower,
- un serviceable,
- most infeasible,
- un-real,
- in-applicable,
- more nonfunctional,
- un wisest,
- more irrealizable,
- un-wise,
- most no go,
- un wiser,
- more no-go,
- most irrealizable,
- in feasible,
- more ivory-tower,
- most ivory-tower.
- un-likeliest,
- staggering,
- more unknowable,
- most imcomprehensible,
- extra-ordinary,
- more imcomprehensible,
- most unknowable,
- most insupposable,
- mind boggling,
- more insupposable,
- in supposable,
- un-likelier,
- most incogitable,
- un-knowable,
- un likelier,
- mindboggling,
- un-likely,
- unheard-of,
- in-cogitable,
- in cogitable,
- unheardof,
- un likeliest,
- in-conceivable,
- imcomprehensible,
- un knowable,
- un likely,
- in conceivable,
- more incogitable,
- in-supposable.
- un-acceptable,
- in sufferable,
- de-testable,
- un-bearable,
- in-sufferable,
- de testable,
- un acceptable,
- un bearable.
- heavyhanded,
- in-admissible,
- un-surpassable,
- in-supportable,
- un surpassable,
- heavy handed,
- in supportable.
- most irreplaceable,
- more irreplaceable,
- more irremedial,
- de stroyed,
- in-corrigible,
- most irremedial,
- most irretrievable,
- in corrigible,
- de-stroyed,
- more irretrievable.
- implausible,
- exaggerated,
- inconceivable,
- unthinkable,
- impractical,
- non-functional,
- unsufferable,
- taking the cake,
- won't fly,
- irremedial,
- Discommodious,
- extra ordinary,
- irretrievable,
- not allowed,
- unfeasible,
- out of the question,
- at an end,
- non-realistic,
- old-hat,
- unbelievable,
- unendurable,
- utopian,
- pie-in-the-sky,
- preposterous,
- unusable,
- used up,
- blue sky,
- old fashioned,
- inoperable,
- NOGO,
- ridiculous,
- unnegotiable,
- a bit much,
- unworkable,
- unserviceable,
- ideological,
- irreparable,
- not on,
- nonrealistic,
- Insupposable,
- incurable,
- ivory-tower,
- beyond repair,
- contrarious,
- Unbusinesslike,
- insufferable,
- indescribable,
- reachy,
- unheard of,
- nonfunctional,
- starry-eyed,
- unknowable,
- ineffable,
- Incogitable,
- nonviable,
- insupportable,
- not applicable,
- intolerable,
- rings phony,
- impracticable,
- no go,
- irreplaceable,
- won't wash,
- tall,
- won't hold water,
- not sensible,
- no-go,
- unrealistic,
- oldfashioned,
- for the birds,
- unsupportable.
- out side,
- most away,
- de-mode,
- most demode,
- at end,
- more old hat,
- oldhat,
- behind times,
- de mode,
- most extinguished,
- more away,
- more expired,
- un-fashionable,
- more extinguished,
- most expired,
- most old hat,
- more demode,
- un fashionable,
- most oldhat,
- more oldhat,
- more doused,
- most old-hat,
- most doused,
- more old-hat.
n.
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- something will not work/start/open etc.,
- undesirable,
- possibly,
- hardly,
- offensive,
- be out of the question,
- with the best will in the world,
- objectionable,
- improper,
- unsuitable.
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•
- pain.
- unthinkables,
- poor possibilities,
- chance million,
- poor prospects,
- not prayer,
- not a prayers,
- snowballs chance in hell,
- chance a million,
- chance in million,
- snowball chance hell,
- fat-chance,
- ghost of chance,
- when hell freezes overs,
- no chances,
- small chances,
- snowball chance in hell,
- ghost a chance,
- very little chances,
- snowballs chance hell,
- poor outlooks,
- ghost chance,
- snowball's chance hell,
- slim chances,
- not prayers.
Other synonyms:
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- ticklish,
- passable,
- ornery,
- impossibility,
- onerous,
- straitened,
- unbridgeable,
- messy,
- insolvable,
- recalcitrant.
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•
- insoluble,
- unwieldy,
- intractable,
- unbearable,
- froward,
- Fiendish,
- thorny,
- wayward,
- balky,
- ungovernable,
- testing.
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•
- contrary,
- gnarly,
- elusive,
- hypersensitive,
- tricky,
- will-o'-the-wisp,
- chronic,
- unrelenting,
- inaccessible.
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•
- perverse.
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•
- gray.
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•
- heavy.
- Unconceivable,
- prohibited,
- questionably,
- real,
- paradox,
- doubtful,
- Ungranted,
- vile,
- dire,
- confusing,
- hinder,
- decimal,
- undreamed of,
- lamentable,
- inadmissible,
- obnoxious,
- refractory,
- pitiful,
- convoluted,
- ghastly,
- hopelessness,
- imaginary,
- antic,
- gross,
- far-fetched,
- mythic,
- pathless,
- question,
- positive,
- odious,
- unavailing,
- algorithmic,
- choice,
- inability,
- reciprocal,
- mad,
- Inimaginable,
- remote,
- unthinkably,
- oxymoron,
- numerical,
- awful,
- logarithmic,
- deplorable,
- unreal,
- enigmatic,
- infinite,
- impair,
- hateful,
- untenable,
- fractional,
- unusually,
- fictitious,
- labor in vain,
- pose,
- weird,
- complex,
- hopelessly,
- regrettable,
- laughable,
- perplexing,
- integral,
- nonplus,
- aliquot,
- beyond belief,
- indefensible,
- insane,
- unresolvable,
- option,
- odd,
- unsolvable,
- peculiar,
- extreme,
- pitiable,
- very,
- villainous,
- rugged,
- figurative,
- fantastical,
- detestable,
- beyond consideration,
- Submultiple,
- pair,
- improbability,
- problematic,
- doubtfulness,
- bother,
- unbelievably,
- plaguy,
- bootless,
- overwhelming,
- wretched,
- dubious,
- likely,
- contemptible,
- contradiction,
- surd,
- nothing doing,
- beyond possibility,
- Numerative,
- unusual,
- closed-out,
- suspect,
- barred,
- strange,
- Self-contradiction,
- redundancy,
- too late,
- Impossibilities,
- foul,
- unimaginably,
- infamous,
- conflicting,
- cardinal,
- Refused,
- tangled,
- wild,
- mysterious,
- hard to believe,
- implausibly,
- horrid,
- wonderful,
- even,
- unworthy of,
- desperate,
- differential,
- prodigious,
- horrible,
- Insufferably,
- finite,
- doubtfully,
- bewildering,
- undreamt of,
- base,
- figural,
- puzzling,
- suspicious,
- surprisingly,
- atrocious,
- questionable,
- digital,
- painfully,
- enormous,
- Excluded,
- inexpressible,
- equivocal,
- impossibly,
- ridiculously,
- unable,
- rational,
- shameful,
- Logometric,
- unexpected,
- exponential,
- unaccountable,
- implausibility,
- pointless,
- terrible,
- dubiousness,
- uncertain,
- fulsome,
- numeral,
- numeric,
- ambiguous,
- shocking,
- unsurmountable,
- algorismic,
- dreadful,
- baffling,
- insensate,
- unlikelihood,
- worthless,
- count me out,
- inconsistency,
- trackless,
- fanciful,
- impracticability,
- unworthy,
- perplex,
- oddly,
- oxymoronic,
- heinous,
- flagrant,
- arithmetical,
- exceptionable,
- absurdity,
- disputable,
- Numerary,
- impossible action,
- transcendental,
- problem,
- not likely,
- unbearably,
- fishy,
- incredibly,
- by no means,
- Figurate,
- intolerably,
- labyrinthine,
- Invious,
- knotted,
- unaccepted,
- abominable,
- mind-boggling,
- radical,
- scandalous,
- grievous,
- intricate,
- nefarious,
- waste,
- dismal,
- try one's patience,
- woeful,
- complicated,
- gravel,
- stubborn,
- incomprehensible,
- irony,
- fantastic,
- prime,
- negative,
- undefeatable,
- noisome,
- extremely,
- rank,
- sad,
- excruciatingly,
- despicable,
- open to doubt,
- vain,
- ordinal,
- knotty,
- nonexistence,
- grave.
How to use "Impossible" in context?
Impossible is a word that is often thrown around carelessly, without understanding the true meaning of the word. We often use the word to describe something that we deem impossible to achieve, or something that we believe is too difficult or impossible to happen. But what exactly is meant when we use the word "impossible"?
To most, it would seem that anything that is impossible is simply something that cannot be done. But this isn't always the case. To consider something impossible, we must first look at the definition of the word.
Paraphrases for Impossible:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
impracticable, impractical, infeasible, unable, unachievable.
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Noun, plural
unable.
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Noun, singular or mass
impossibility.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
able, absurd, achievable, attainable, available, conceivable, difficult, elusive, feasible, hard, implausible, improbable, inaccessible, inadmissible, incapable, inconceivable, incredible, indefensible, indistinguishable, inevitable, insane, insoluble, insufferable, insuperable, insurmountable, intolerable, intractable, likely, miserable, permissible, plausible, practicable, ridiculous, terrible, unacceptable, unavailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbelievable, unenforceable, unimaginable, unlikely, unmanageable, unobtainable, unreachable, unrealistic, unthinkable, viable, weak, Precluded, unsustainable, unviable, unaffordable.
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Noun, plural
complaints, attempts, problems.
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Noun, singular or mass
inability.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
hopeless, unattainable, unfeasible, untenable, unworkable.
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Noun, singular or mass
hopeless.
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Adjective
Hyponym for Impossible:
n.
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cognition
impossible action, impossibility.
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cognition
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