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impassable, impassible, impossible
impassable (im PAS uh buhl) (adjective)
Pertaining to something which is unable to be traveled or overcome: The severe snowstorm made the roads in the mountains impassable.
impassible (im PAS i buhl) (adjective)
Characterized as being incapable of feelings; immune to pain or suffering: Tamika's face was a masque, impassible to the suffering around her.
impossible (im PAHS i buhl) (adjective)
Unacceptable, awkward, incapable of happening: Up to 1969, it was believed that it was impossible to fly to the moon.
It was impossible to read Eric's impassible expression at the news of the efforts of his friends to cross the impassable mountain pass during the winter.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group I; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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pass-, pace-
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impossible (adjective) (not comparable)
1. Inconceivable; unreasonable: It is certainly impossible to think of Mr. T.being the president of his country!
2. Not capable of being accomplished; hopeless: It was impossible to use Jane's computer without knowing her password.
3. Unacceptable; intolerable: impossible behavior: Jack didn't take off his head phones when spoken to, which his parents thought impossible and rude.
4. Extremely difficult to deal with or to tolerate: Examples can be an impossible child or an impossible situation.
2. Not capable of being accomplished; hopeless: It was impossible to use Jane's computer without knowing her password.
3. Unacceptable; intolerable: impossible behavior: Jack didn't take off his head phones when spoken to, which his parents thought impossible and rude.
4. Extremely difficult to deal with or to tolerate: Examples can be an impossible child or an impossible situation.
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poten-, pot-, poss-, -potent, -potence, -potency, -potential +
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(an accurate count is impossible)
(Latin: foot, feet; people often see this ped element in other words. When people refer to "pedal extremities", they mean "feet". When anyone pushes the pedals of a bicycle, it is done with the feet. A pedestrian must use the feet for walking. A quadruped has four feet while a centipede has "100 feet"; or a large number of them because it may be impossible to count all of them.)