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impossible English

Meaning impossible meaning

What does impossible mean?
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impossible

If something is impossible it cannot happen or cannot be done. It is impossible for people to breathe water. It's impossible for one man to build a whole city in one day. That shot is impossible, no one could hit the target from here. If a person is impossible they refuse to agree or to be peaceful. No point arguing with you! You're just impossible!

impossible

not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with an impossible dream an impossible situation totally unlikely something that cannot be done his assignment verged on the impossible (= insufferable) used of persons or their behavior impossible behavior insufferable insolence

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Simple sentences

It is impossible to do it.
I thought it impossible for him to solve the problem.
It is impossible to live without water.
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.
I'm sorry, but that is simply impossible.
This is impossible!
It was impossible to come up with a really satisfactory solution.
Dinosaur eggs? Impossible. These animals are already extinct.
We've done the impossible.
Absolutely impossible.
I used to think this was impossible.
It is next to impossible to carry it out.
It isn't easy to get along with idiots. Sometimes it is even impossible.
It's impossible for me to explain it to you.
Prime numbers are like life; they are completely logical, but impossible to find the rules for, even if you spend all your time thinking about it.
Let's face it, it's impossible. We're never gonna make it.
She's asking for the impossible.
Impossible!
Everything is theoretically impossible until it's done.
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
No thing is impossible for one who has no need to do it himself.
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
You ask me to do the impossible.
In a town you may pass unnoticed, whereas in a village it's impossible.
It is impossible for you to do so.
To live without air is impossible.
The loss of money made it impossible for him to go abroad.
It is almost impossible to learn a foreign language in a short time.
No matter how we try, it is impossible to distinguish good people from bad people by outward appearances.

Movie subtitles

That's Impossible, continue!
Hard, but not impossible.
Mrs. Palmer's husband and daughter provided alibis that are impossible to prove one way or the other.
No. That's impossible.
But not impossible?
For many weeks, Gurn was impossible to find.
It is absolutely impossible that the prisoner could have got out of his cell that night, and then come back to it.
But meeting you today is impossible.
But that's impossible.
If the ice does not break, it would be impossible to set sail for Scotland.
I cannot. An oath that I swore my father renders it impossible.
It is impossible, my Queen!
Dropping provisions is impossible I'll show you now the exact location by flying as close to it as possible.
But the dead calm makes the trip impossible without rowing.
It was impossible to do scientific experiments in those times, especially when this had to do with radio techniques.
Impossible, right?
Seeing these nine brave souls who fought for humanity, upholding justice, facing impossible odds, yet pushing forward, is something that I will never forget.
Joaquín, unless they transfer you to another prison. escaping is impossible.
The bloody nobs make it impossible.
That's impossible!
That isn't impossible.
But as I've said before, it's quite impossible.
But then, if Dracula were a vampire, he'd have to return every night to Transylvania, and that's impossible.
This man's impossible.
Impossible. We just came from there.
I think you are the most impossible person I've ever met!
What's the use of talking about the impossible?
They play dirty, which is why sometimes it seems like it's damned near impossible for rule-abiding kids to win.
It's impossible for me to go.
Impossible!
Almost impossible.
But, Doctor, this is impossible.
Jerry, you're impossible.
It would be impossible for me to tell you how many animals I have killed.
I'm sure you must see how impossible it would be for you to remain at the bank.
Economically impossible.
This man is impossible.
No, no, that'd be impossible, Smiley.

News and current affairs

To many, myself included, NATO's enlargement to take in, among others, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -- which were once Soviet republics -- is an impossible dream come true.
And, over time, Israeli settler disengagement from the West Bank and East Jerusalem has become just as impossible as any attempt by Israel to expel its remaining Arabs.
Chaos theory in mathematics explains such dependency on remote and seemingly trivial initial conditions, and explains why even the extrapolation of apparently precise planetary motion becomes impossible when taken far enough into the future.
But the US has argued that arms-control measures banning offensive capabilities could weaken defenses against attacks and would be impossible to verify or enforce.
Trying to limit all intrusions would be impossible, but one could start with cyber crime and cyber terrorism involving non-state parties.
The European Central Bank, fixated on inflation, will be slow to lower interest rates, and the European Stability Pact will make it impossible for fiscal policy to offset these weaknesses.
Indeed, without Taliban sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border, and without Pakistani financial backing, the rebirth of the Taliban's armed insurgency against the central Afghan government would have been impossible.
Without Taliban sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border and the backing by the Pakistani intelligence service ISI, the rebirth of the Taliban's armed insurgency against the central Afghan government would have been impossible.
It will be difficult, but not impossible, to re-establish confidence in the central government.
For much of the past 60 years, it would have been impossible to hold such a fundamental dialogue without US participation.
Just as it is next to impossible to take a critically ill patient off life-support treatment, it is equally difficult to wean post-bubble economies from their now steady dose of liquidity injections and deficit spending.
Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible make violent revolutions inevitable.
It is not difficult to overthrow Saddam, but it is impossible to predict who or what will take his place.
Given the unpredictability of global developments, it is, of course, impossible to answer this question definitively.
In this instance, it is impossible to pry them apart.
Moreover, once the eurozone had started refinancing Greece without any contribution from private creditors, it would be politically impossible to stop.
It is impossible to overestimate how significant a step Barack Obama's election is in this direction, but America's actions over the coming years will be the ultimate determinant of whether the power of America's model can be restored.
It is impossible at this point to gauge the full extent of the damage with any degree of precision.
In states where justice is bought by the rich and powerful, this may impossible, but individual judges can and do stand up to power.
But Greece's membership in the eurozone makes that impossible.
The world's democracies have declared that they will not allow Iran to possess nuclear arms; it is their duty to follow through on that commitment, before doing so becomes impossible.
Other Confucian societies, such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, now have thriving liberal democracies, and there is no reason to believe that such a transition is impossible in China.
Defending the Security Council's current make-up is impossible; the need for change is beyond debate.
It would be impossible to rule out a regional war.

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