impassable
/ɪmˈpɑːsəb(ə)l
/adjective
Impossible to travel along or over: the narrow channels are impassable to ocean-going ships...
- The very roads that permit us to travel may be impassable barriers to other species.
- For the secret of all Austrian music is that there is no impassable barrier between the music of the people and ‘culture’.
- In many cases that seems to be an impassable barrier.
Synonyms
blocked, closed, obstructed, impenetrable;
pathless, trackless;
unnavigable, untraversable, unpassable
Derivatives
impassability
/ noun ...- While it rejects process theology, the book asserts that such classical doctrines as God's immutability, impassability and foreknowledge demand reconsideration.
- His eyes were brown and narrowed in a look of impassability, and his mouth was set in a grim line that nearly sent a shudder through the young initiate.
- Her eyes slowly rose from its foot to its acme, taking in its enormity and impassability.
impassableness
impassably
- Viewers could move in and out among the hanging components in the darkened gallery, except where the roughly V-shaped arrangement clustered impassably into the farthest corner.
- From here, a narrow inlet passage formed along right - angled cross joints finally narrows impassably.