unpossible
English
Etymology
From Middle English unpossible, equivalent to un- (“not”) + possible.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʌnˈpɒsɪbəl/
Adjective
unpossible (comparative more unpossible, superlative most unpossible)
- (now rare, nonstandard, sometimes humorous) Impossible.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, (please specify the book of the Bible):
- And this is the. vj. moneth to her, which was called barren, for with god shall nothinge be unpossible.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:, 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 […].
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXI:
- [S]o prodigiously various are the works of the Creator, and so All-sufficient is he to perform what to man would seem unpossible […].
- 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.
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