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# impossibly

«impossibly» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a way that cannot happen or be done** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (impossibly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Impossibly means in a way that cannot happen or be done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibly/#m1)

2) Impossibly also means extremely or unbelievably, so much that it seems impossible: «impossibly tall». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk and stories it exaggerates: «impossibly hard», «impossibly beautiful». In maths it can point to a real impossibility, but usually it just means «very, very». Phrases: «impossibly difficult», «impossibly tall», «impossibly fast».

### examples

- The giraffe's neck looked impossibly long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibly/#x1)
- The puzzle was impossibly hard, so we asked for a hint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibly/#x2)
- The skyscraper rose impossibly high into the clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibly/#x3)
- Her handwriting was impossibly small. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibly/#x4)
- The magician seemed to float impossibly above the stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibly/#x5)
- The queue for the ride was impossibly long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibly/#x6)
- The cake was impossibly delicious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibly/#x7)

### note

Adverb from «impossible». Usually goes before an adjective. Often an exaggeration, so in a story it does not mean the thing truly cannot happen. Not the same as «impossible»: «It is impossible» (adjective), «impossibly hard» (adverb).

### In the corpora

- [Many players who seem impossibly good have simply practised for a very long time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/31/)
- [Saturn is the least dense planet, less dense than water, so in an impossibly huge bath it would float.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/7/)
- [Saturn is less dense than water, so in an impossibly huge bath it would float.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «impossibly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impossibly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.