unpossible

英语

词源

源自中古英语 unpossible，等价于un- (“不”) +‎ possible。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /ʌnˈpɒsɪbəl/

形容词

unpossible (比较级 more unpossible，最高级 most unpossible)

1. (现罕用，非标准，有时幽默) impossible之同义词
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   • 1624，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]，第2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , 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，Kupperman, 出版于 1988，页 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 […].

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   • 1665，Robert Hooke，Micrographia, section XXI:

     [S]o prodigiously various are the works of the Creator, and so All-sufficient is he to perform what to man would seem unpossible […].

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   • 1994，“Lisa on Ice”, in The Simpsons:

     Ralph Wiggum: Me fail English? That's unpossible!

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   • 2008，David Goldberg，“meeting with HKS”, in Mimecast:

     I think we can all agree that this is unpossible.

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