| 单词 | impossibly |
| 释义 | impossibly (once / 8955 pages) adv The adverb impossibly describes something that's utterly unlikely, or that can't possibly be achieved. If a marathon runner becomes exhausted at a spot impossibly far from the finish line, she might never make it. If you hold yourself to impossibly high standards when it comes to school, it means you'll never be happy with the grades you get. And if you see a girl with eyes the color of emeralds, you can say she has impossibly green eyes — in other words, it doesn't seem possible they could be so bright. Impossibly, from the adjective impossible, has the Latin root impossibilis, "not possible." WORD FAMILYimpossible: impossibility, impossibleness, impossibles, impossiblest, impossibly+/impossibility: impossibilities/possibility: possibilities/possible: impossible, possibility, possiblely, possibleness, possibles, possibly/possibly: possiblys USAGE EXAMPLESThis dish is a small miracle in a smaller skillet, an impossibly rich butter-laden cornmeal cake fired in an individual-sized cast-iron pan. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Many of the settlements criss-cross the Palestinian West Bank and divide it into impossibly disconnected chunks. Los Angeles Times(Dec 24, 2016) In the era of hip-hop yoga and handstands on Instagram, it’s easy to associate yoga with impossibly lithe and limber young people. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) adv to a degree impossible of achievement long thought to be an impossibly difficult operation impossibly far from sources of supply Ant possibly to a degree possible of achievement or by possible means |
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