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unnavigatable

unnavigatable is the alternative form of unnavigable.

Meaning of unnavigable

Adjective

unnavigable (comparative more unnavigable, superlative most unnavigable)

  1. Not navigable: difficult or impossible to navigate.
    • Near-synonym: impassible
    Antonyms:
    navigable
    1. Impossible to sail through; impassible to watercraft, unusable as a waterway (for example, too shallow).
      • A road journey of 70 miles past unnavigable rapids leads to Juba, from which it is seven days' steaming down river through to Kosti, on the Sudan Railways.1950 May, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Tanganyika Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 298
    2. (trail, or route) That is totally impassible: cannot be used for any reason.
      • The trail was unnavigable since the flood washed it away.

Forms of unnavigatable

comparativemore unnavigatable
superlativemost unnavigatable

Origin of unnavigatable

From un- + navigatable.

Questions about unnavigatable

What is unnavigatable the alternative form of?
Unnavigatable is the alternative form of unnavigable.

Words near unnavigatable in the dictionary

  1. unnautical
  2. unnavigability
  3. unnavigable
  4. unnavigableness
  5. unnavigably
  6. unnavigatable
  7. unnavigated
  8. unnear
  9. unnearable
  10. unneared
  11. unneat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unnavigatable (page history and authors); unnavigable (page history and authors). 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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