Definition of unpassable in English:
unpassable
adjective ʌnˈpɑːsəb(ə)lˌənˈpasəbəl
Impossible to travel along or over; impassable.
some roads are completely unpassable because of flood waters
Example sentencesExamples
- I tried to figure out the best way to get there, but it was obvious that the usual streets I would take were unpassable.
- Tradesmen and people dumping household waste have made the track to his mother's house almost unpassable.
- Others travelled northeast from Europe in search of an equally fabled, but also unpassable, arctic passage along Russia's northern coast.
- Tens of thousands have been trapped in often-freezing homes and villages by walls of snow and unpassable roads.
- When I bought the place, it was open to the sky and there were ferns and trees growing there - it was just an unusable and unpassable area.
- The routes down the mountain might be unpassable until the spring.
- In the dry season it is arid, in the wet season it is an unpassable swamp.
Synonyms
blocked, closed, obstructed, impenetrable