impossibly
advEtymology From impossible + -ly.
1
Not possibly; in an impossible manner.
2
To the point of impossibility.
- The topology problem was impossibly difficult.
3
Contrary to what had been thought possible.
- Impossibly, after the water receded, the cat was found asleep on a chair jammed in a tree.
- ANDRÉ SARAIVA, the slight 35-year-old graffitist and night-life entrepreneur, showed up at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in the Marais on a recent Saturday night in his trademark impossibly skinny jeans and a navy Thom Browne peacoat.2007 April 22, Julia Chaplin, “The Life of the After-Party”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2022:
- Antonyms
- possibly