impossibly

adverb

im·​pos·​si·​bly (ˌ)im-ˈpä-sə-blē How to pronounce impossibly (audio)
1
: not possibly
2
: to an improbable degree : unbelievably
an impossibly green lawn

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Next up, Joe arrived in time to see Josie operate in a simulator — VR goggles that deposited her in a rundown (and impossibly lifelike?) neighborhood. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Nov. 2024 However, the website’s about us page shares zero names and uses an impossibly good-looking set of very young analysts that a reverse image search reveals is almost guaranteed to be a stock photo. John Koetsier, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024 Just before the infamous AOL-Time Warner merger was announced in 2000, Fortune published an EVA analysis showing (correctly) that AOL stock was impossibly overvalued. Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024 Jessica's brows are tweezer-thin with an impossibly high arch, and Bailey sculpted her brows into a similar shape, likely by covering up her actual brows and drawing on a Jessica-style set or obscuring part of her brow. Kara Nesvig, Allure, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for impossibly 

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1580, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of impossibly was circa 1580

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“Impossibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impossibly. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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