impossible

impossible (ɪmˈpɒsəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	incapable of being done, undertaken, or experienced
2.	incapable of occurring or happening
3.	absurd or inconceivable; unreasonable: it's impossible to think of him as a bishop
4.	informal intolerable; outrageous: those children are impossible

im'possibleness

—n

im'possibly

—*adv*

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Open fires and heavy cooking pots made the quick sautés and crisp tenderness of

contemporary cuisine impossible.

So it is impossible for a character to be one thing at all times.

Right now it's impossible for a consumer to get an accurate gauge of energy use

without deploying numerous expensive sensors.

It takes a crisis to make the politically impossible possible.

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