intransitableadj.
/ɪnˈtransɪtəb(ə)l//ɪnˈtrɑːnsɪtəb(ə)l//ɪnˈtranzɪtəb(ə)l//ɪnˈtrɑːnzɪtəb(ə)l/ rare.
Unavailable for transit.
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society > travel > [adjective] > travelled on, over, or through > able to be > unable to be
ungoingable1482
unpassablea1525
unpassageable1592
passless1603
irrepassable1608
unpassible1646
untravellable1652
impracticable1653
impermeable1662
unvoyageable1667
impassable1697
landlocked1770
impervious1774
intraversable1803
unrideable1827
intransitable1838
untraversable1856
uncrossable1882
1838 ‘Texian’ Mexico v. Texas 9 In that singular region of Mexico..there extends..a desert..so utterly devoid of water and vegetation as to be intransitable.
1889 Times 24 Dec. 5/2 Its lands are tropical..and there is a gigantic, often intransitable, river system.
1897 Geogr. Jrnl. 10 64 A road along the coast would become lost in intransitable gorges of the coast range of mountains.
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adj.1838- as pertaining to
- as pertains to
- as plain as a packstaff
- as plain as abc
- as plain as dunstable highway
- as plain as dunstable road
- as plain as dunstable way
- as plain as pottage
- as plain as the nose on one's face
- as plain as the way to dunstable
- as pleased as punch
- as plentiful as blackberries
- as poor as a church mouse
- as poor as job
- as poor as job's cat
- as poor as job's turkey
- as poor richard says
- as popular as a fart in a spacesuit
- as pretty as a picture
- as pretty as a speckled pup
- as pretty as etc
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- as proud as lucifer
- as proud as punch
- as pure as driven snow