impossibly

adverb

im·​pos·​si·​bly (ˌ)im-ˈpä-sə-blē How to pronounce impossibly (audio)
1
: not possibly
2
: to an improbable degree : unbelievably
an impossibly green lawn

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The car wash in itself is another example of the impossibly big shoes Ava left to fill; her cunning, charisma, and street smarts were the glue holding the school together. Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2025 Love them or loathe them, Peeps are the very adorable cockroaches of the candy world—brightly colored, impossibly squishy, and seemingly indestructible. Lanee Lee, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025 There’s a lot of people who would get impossibly itchy with that kind of gap between the writing and the release of the album. Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025 Unable to meet the impossibly lofty standard Donovan left behind, White ultimately departed for Georgia. Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for impossibly

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1580, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of impossibly was circa 1580

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“Impossibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impossibly. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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