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Webster 1913 Edition


Unpossible

Un-pos′si-ble

,
Adj.
Impossible.
[R.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Unpossible

UNPOS'SIBLE

,
Adj.
Not possible. obs. [The word now used is impossible.]

Definition 2024


unpossible

unpossible

English

Adjective

unpossible (comparative more unpossible, superlative most unpossible)

  1. (now rare, nonstandard) Impossible.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, New Testament, British Library 2000, p. 119:
      And this is the. vj. moneth to her, which was called barren, for with god shall nothinge be unpossible.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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 […].
    • 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.

Usage notes

In modern use, the term is usually considered non-standard.