impossibly

Adverb

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.
   • 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...