Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not possibly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Not possibly.
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- adverb Not
possibly ; in animpossible manner. - adverb To the point of impossibility.
- adverb Contrary to what had been thought possible.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to a degree impossible of achievement
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, walking across campus, on course for what could be termed an impossibly random celestial event, he -- deep in thought, stroking his Clark Gable mustache, she -- in a hurry to connect with old friends, they -- the progeny of two of America's most influential leaders... collided.
Robert J. Benz: Women for Women: Nettie Washington Douglass Summons the Strength of Her Gender Robert J. Benz 2011
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Now, walking across campus, on course for what could be termed an impossibly random celestial event, he -- deep in thought, stroking his Clark Gable mustache, she -- in a hurry to connect with old friends, they -- the progeny of two of America's most influential leaders... collided.
Robert J. Benz: Women for Women: Nettie Washington Douglass Summons the Strength of Her Gender Robert J. Benz 2011
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Now, walking across campus, on course for what could be termed an impossibly random celestial event, he -- deep in thought, stroking his Clark Gable mustache, she -- in a hurry to connect with old friends, they -- the progeny of two of America's most influential leaders... collided.
Robert J. Benz: Women for Women: Nettie Washington Douglass Summons the Strength of Her Gender Robert J. Benz 2011
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It is magnificently if rustically beautiful with red clay earth covered in impossibly green foliage.
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It is magnificently if rustically beautiful with red clay earth covered in impossibly green foliage.
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It is magnificently if rustically beautiful with red clay earth covered in impossibly green foliage.
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It is magnificently if rustically beautiful with red clay earth covered in impossibly green foliage.
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Every now and then he still heard of her, living down there, spending her days out in the woods and fields, and sometimes even her nights, they said, and steadily growing poorer and thinner and more eccentric; becoming, in short, impossibly difficult, as only
Tatterdemalion John Galsworthy 1900
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She's being called impossibly glamorous -- the French president's new wife is drawing frenzied comparisons to Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
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CHETRY: Well, the "Times of London" called her impossibly glamorous.
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