Meaning

3 senses
  1. (usually)Incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated.

    unpassierbar, unüberwindbar, unüberwindlich

    incapable of being passed

  2. Incapable of being overcome or surmounted.

  3. Not usable as legal tender.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. The road up ahead is impassable.

  2. The roads are impassable because of the heavy snow.

    ruДороги непроходимы из-за сильного снегопада. — marafon

  3. This road is impassable.

    Ця дорога непроїздна. — deniko

    deDiese Straße ist unpassierbar. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. The mountains ahead are craggy and almost impassable.

  5. There were white out conditions in the town; subsequently, the roads were impassable.

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated:

Forms

more impassable, most impassable
Comparativemore impassable Lesson
Superlativemost impassable Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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