Dubious and Impossible

Dubious

Dubious adjective - Not likely to be true or to occur.
Usage example: made the dubious claim of being of royal blood

Impossible and dubious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Impossible" instead an adjective "Dubious".

Nearby Words: dubiety, dubiousness, dubiously

Impossible

Impossible adjective - Incapable of being solved or accomplished.
Usage example: fitting everything in my backpack seemed an impossible task

Dubious and impossible are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dubious" instead an adjective "Impossible".

Nearby Words: impossibility, impossibly

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / The House of Tudor If she was in love with anyone, she was in love with him (but he was married, until his wife died under dubious circumstances that made their marriage impossible).
  • Tomboy In the end, definition is impossible, and identifying a Tomboy comes down to "knowing it when one sees it" (though the quality of this "knowledge" is dubious).
    Source: Tomboy
  • Series / The Inbetweeners Anatomically Impossible Sex: Jay's stories about sex get more and more dubious as time goes by.
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