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副詞

impossibly (comparative more impossibly, superlative most impossibly)

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.

   • 2007 April 22, Julia Chaplin, “The Life of the After-Party”, in The New York Times‎:

     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.

反意語

• possibly

参照

• “impossibly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “impossibly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.