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impassable

/ɪmˈpɑː.sə.bəl/

impassable adjective: incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated.

Adjective

impassable (comparative more impassable, superlative most impassable)

  1. (usually, terrain) Incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated.
    • At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 408
    • [...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709
  2. Incapable of being overcome or surmounted.
  3. Not usable as legal tender.

impassable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

impassable in Hindi

impassable, unfordable
अपार apār

impassable in Tamil

கடக்க முடியாத, செல்லுதற்கரிய

impassable in Urdu

ناقابل گزر

impassable in Bengali

অগম্য, দুর্গম
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impassable in Malayalam
കടക്കാൻ പറ്റാത്ത, കടന്നുപോകാൻ കഴിയാത്ത, കടന്നുപോകാൻ വഹിയാത്ത, ചെല്ലാൻ പറ്റാത്ത

Synonyms of impassable

Forms of impassable

comparativemore impassable
superlativemost impassable

Origin of impassable

From im- + pass + -able.

Words formed from impassable

Questions about impassable

What does impassable mean?
Impassable means incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated.
What is impassable in Hindi?
Impassable in Hindi is अपार (apār). See Impassable meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is impassable?
Impassable is an adjective.
How do you pronounce impassable?
Impassable is pronounced /ɪmˈpɑː.sə.bəl/.

Words near impassable in the dictionary

  1. impartment
  2. impartments
  3. imparts
  4. impassabilities
  5. impassability
  6. impassable
  7. impassableness
  8. impassably
  9. impasse
  10. impasses
  11. impassibilities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: impassable (page history and authors); अपार (Hindi) (page history and authors); impassable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impassable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Impassable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impassable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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