Searching…
Dec 8, 2015 · Ngram shows a prevalent usage of impossible vs unpossible also in the past centuries. It appears that unpossible has always been a less common variant: Unpossible: (Etymology) from Middle English unpossi...
Apr 18, 2018 · I am working as software engineer. I have to use sentences like 'it is impossible' or it is not possible' in many emails. I want to know that both are same or some has more impossible look than o...
@Tiny In my mother tongue, German, I would say both It's not possible and It's impossible when someone would tell me the sun is going to rise on the wrong side. Though, I believe there's a slight difference, based on ...
Oct 30, 2015 · I know that the negative prefix im- is used before b, m, p as an assimilation of the prefix in-. Then why can't we say imbelievable, inpleasant or inpredictable but we use unbelievable, unpleasant ...
Dec 22, 2012 · @spiceyokooko I think you're right. In Carlo_R's defense, implausible is often used thus, as if implausible and improbable were synonyms; and what is "totally improbable" is, by definition, impossible. ...
Aug 31, 2012 · The connotation of pretty much any adverb applied to "impossible" is that there is a known circumstance or set of events that would produce the "impossibility", but that those circumstances are so impro...
Aug 14, 2015 · Is it grammatically correct to write: " isn't possible to make something" or is the only correct form " it isn't possible to make something"? I'm asking specifically for the correct, grammatical form, n...
Dec 3, 2017 · When speaking of a problem that has no solution, do the words insolvable, insoluble, and unsolvable have different shades of meaning? How do you decide which to use?
Mar 15, 2023 · "Inauthentic" is more commonly used than "unauthentic", at least these days, but they are both valid. Several sources (World Wide Words for example) suggest what prefix the nega...
Aug 12, 2010 · I assume you are referring to the common abbreviation for the Latin id est, which is commonly translated as "that is to say". So, think of the English when you would use it, i.e. when you're about to wr...
