IMPOSSIBLE
NECESSARILY NOT HAPPEN
Antonym
- POSSIBLEABLE TO BE DONE OR ABLE TO HAPPEN, OR ABLE TO BE THE CASE.
Hypernym
- NECESSITYCERTAIN AND CAUSING ONE NOT to be ABLE to IMAGINE it being NOT TRUE.
- CERTAINTRUE AND NOT being DOUBTED.
- TRUEEXIST CONFORMing to SPEAK(what is claimed). (BE AS SAID(asserted))[[NB: the subject of this syntactic predicate is the situation identified in the "sentence" of which this syntactic predicate is predicated. "God made Heaven and Earth" is TRUE iff the situation identified in this sentence (the creation of Heaven and Earth by God) EXISTS(i.e. occurred).]
- EXISTBE-IN the UNIVERSE of SPACE AND TIME....
- TRUEEXIST CONFORMing to SPEAK(what is claimed). (BE AS SAID(asserted))[[NB: the subject of this syntactic predicate is the situation identified in the "sentence" of which this syntactic predicate is predicated. "God made Heaven and Earth" is TRUE iff the situation identified in this sentence (the creation of Heaven and Earth by God) EXISTS(i.e. occurred).]
- CERTAINTRUE AND NOT being DOUBTED.
- Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
(
PILLON 1850)
p.
no.85 - Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung
(
FRANKE 1989)
p.
59B
Words
難 nán MC: nan OC: mɢlaanCH 30 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vibe difficult indeed!!; be perfectly unrealistic; be a hopeless line of action; be in a hopeless caseCH
不可 bù kě OC: pɯʔ khlaalʔ MC: pi̯ut khɑ 21 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- VPibe impossibleLZ
- VPt+V[0]{PASS}cannot be V-edCH
- VPt[0] V[0]. ZHIadNwhich is impossible to VDS
- VPt[0]+V[0]it is impossible to V; one cannot V
末 mò OC: maad MC: mʷɑt 2 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vibe unheard of; be impossible (German: ein Unding sein)
无以 wú yǐ MC: mju yiX OC: ma k-lɯʔCH 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPt V[0]there is no way of V-ingCH
不可通 bù kě tōng MC: pjut khaX thuwng OC: pɯʔ khlaalʔ kh-looŋCH 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPilogically impossible; inconceivable; intellectually unconstruableCH
難乎 nán hū MC: nan hu OC: mɢlaan ɢaaCH 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vi V[0]it is impossible (for one) to VCH
Existing SW for
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