impassable

IPA: ɪmpˈæsʌbʌɫ

adjective

  • (of a route, terrain, etc.) Incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated.
  • (of an obstacle) Incapable of being overcome or surmounted.
  • (of currency) Not usable as legal tender.
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Examples of "impassable" in Sentences

  • Leath said many people asked why the roads were referred to as impassable or treacherous instead of closed.
  • Apparently all the government has to do is invoke the term ‘State Secrets’ and the lawsuit hits in impassable brick wall.
  • Well, on we go, -- driving across what you would call impassable streets, and lo! we are wedged up in a crowd, -- and such a crowd, -- a crowd of all nations.
  • Dismissed in four paragraphs with no analysis of the so-called impassable barriers, while the Idaho/Montana route is extensive in the number of turnouts needing to be constructed, the number of small bridges needing crossed, and the extent of modifications needed to complete the route.

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