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Definition of Impassable

1. Adjective. Incapable of being passed.

Definition of Impassable

1. a. Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf.

Definition of Impassable

1. Adjective. (context: of a route, terrain, etc.) Incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of an obstacle) Incapable of being overcome or surmounted. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: of currency) Not useable as legal tender. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Impassable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impassable

Literary usage of Impassable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Easements by John Leybourn Goddard (1904)
"... when the way itself is deviate, absolutely impassable, or when, from the ordinary collection of mud or want of necessary repair, it is in a state which ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"Trans thoracic Cardiotomy, a New Method for the Cure of an impassable ... aged three years, with an almost impassable stricture of the oesophagus, ..."

3. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"THE impassable BARRIER BETWEEN BRUTES AND MAN (From a Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in ..."

4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Wo charged across what appeared to be an almost impassable ravine, with the right wing all the time subject to a hot fire of grape and canister, ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"21> impassable objects on line—Witness points.— Where the survey of a line is obstructed by an impassable object, such as a pond, swamp, or marsh, ..."

6. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"Until now, these mountains had been deemed impassable : they are very high, very rugged, and covered with wood. The loss in killed and wounded was very ..."

7. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"He was always complaining that he had no system; speaks of his own "impassable paragraphs, each sentence an infinitely repellent particle. ..."

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