DIFFICULT vs IMPOSSIBLE: NOUN
- N/A
- Something that cannot be done
- An impossibility.
- (with definite article) that which seems impossible
DIFFICULT vs IMPOSSIBLE: ADJECTIVE
- Not easy to persuade or convince; stubborn.
- Not easy to please, satisfy, or manage.
- Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain.
- Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying.
- Requiring considerable effort or skill; not easy to do or accomplish.
- Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
- Hard, not easy, requiring much effort
- Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
- Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn.
- Hard to control
- Requiring much effort and trouble
- Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome; eg. said of a person, a horse, etc.
- Very difficult to deal with.
- Not possible, not able to be done.
- An imaginary quantity. See Imaginary.
- Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible.
- Extremely difficult to deal with or tolerate.
- Unacceptable; intolerable.
- Not capable of being accomplished.
- Incapable of having existence or of occurring.
- Used of persons or their behavior
- Totally unlikely
- Not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with
DIFFICULT vs IMPOSSIBLE: VERB
- To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
- N/A
DIFFICULT vs IMPOSSIBLE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.
- N/A
DIFFICULT vs IMPOSSIBLE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Not easy
- Synonyms Difficult, Hard, Arduous (see arduous), laborious, toilsome; obscure, knotty.
- Hard to understand or solve; perplexing; puzzling: as, a difficult passage in an author; a difficult question or problem.
- Hard to persuade or induce; stubborn in yielding; obstinate as to opinion: as, he was difficult to convince.
- Hard to please or satisfy; not compliant; unaccommodating; rigid; austere: as, a person of difficult temper.
- Hard to do, perform, or overcome; attended with labor, pains, or opposition; laborious: as, a difficult undertaking.
- Not easy; requiring or dependent on effort; hard; troublesome; arduous.
- To perplex; embarrass.
- To make difficult; impede.
- Not possible; non-existent or false by necessity.
- In law, in a stricter sense, prevented only by the act of God or a public enemy.
- Excessively odd; not to have been imagined; such as would not have been thought possible: as, she is a most impossible person; he wears an impossible hat.
- (used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable
DIFFICULT vs IMPOSSIBLE: RELATED WORDS
- Thorny, Trying, Unenviable, Delicate, Awkward, Rocky, Rough, Troublesome, Problematical, Arduous, Hard, Problematic, Challenging, Tough, Tricky
- Insufferable, Unrealizable, Impracticable, Unacceptable, Hopeless, Intolerable, Unworkable, Unimaginable, Unattainable, Unachievable, Unthinkable, Infeasible, Undoable, Unfeasible, Inconceivable
DIFFICULT vs IMPOSSIBLE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Thorny, Trying, Unenviable, Delicate, Awkward, Rocky, Rough, Troublesome, Problematical, Arduous, Hard, Problematic, Challenging, Tough, Tricky
- Insufferable, Unrealizable, Impracticable, Unacceptable, Hopeless, Intolerable, Unworkable, Unimaginable, Unattainable, Unachievable, Unthinkable, Infeasible, Undoable, Unfeasible, Inconceivable
DIFFICULT vs IMPOSSIBLE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- It certainly can make for a difficult marriage.
- Find it difficult to get around your bathroom?
- Metaphors are more difficult to teach than similes.
- Times have been so difficult in recent months.
- The use of cryptography is complex and difficult.
- Slow and difficult process to retrieve boarding pass.
- Calamity player, pure summoner would be insanely difficult.
- You are saying it is more difficult, music is more difficult?
- Some dailies are more difficult than others, a lot more difficult.
- Advancing racial equity is already difficult, but then you add the scope and it becomes more difficult.
- They may manipulate employees by setting impossible goals.
- And now she must make an impossible choice.
- SURREY CHAIRMAN The journey was at times impossible.
- Without precise figures, it is impossible to estimate.
- It is practically impossible to implement programs independently.
- Bathroom door opens in, making wheelchair access impossible.
- Therefore living in the UK would be impossible.
- It would be impossible fairly to do so.
- An important feature: timers that trigger on a certain time are impossible in contracts impossible timers.
- Everyone said impossible, they all said it was impossible to get done.
DIFFICULT vs IMPOSSIBLE: QUESTIONS
- Why is requirements elicitation and analysis difficult?
- Why is objective irreligiosity difficult to measure?
- Are steroid cycle protocols difficult to understand?
- How to manage conflict and difficult conversations?
- How difficult is electronics and Instrumentation Engineering?
- Why is debugging in software development difficult?
- Should monoglot medievalists bother with difficult languages?
- Are difficult conversations sabotaging your working relationships?
- What causes hyperactivity and difficult concentration?
- How difficult are difficult people in the workplace?
- Is social advancement impossible in this environment?
- Is direct doxastic voluntarism conceptually impossible?
- What is the paradox of the Impossible is impossible?
- Is the probable impossible better than the impossible?
- What is the best quote for Impossible is impossible?
- Is the new Mission Impossible movie called Mission Impossible 4?
- How does Mission Impossible-Fallout connect to Mission Impossible 2000?
- Why is Ethan Hunt's mission made impossible in Mission Impossible 2?
- Are impossible feats of achievement really impossible?
- What makes this Impossible Puzzle impossible to solve?