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IMPASSABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incapable of being passed
Synonyms:
impassable; unpassable
Classified under:
Similar:
unclimbable; unsurmountable (incapable of being surmounted or climbed)
unnavigable (incapable of being navigated)
untraversable (incapable of being traversed)
Antonym:
passable (able to be passed or traversed or crossed)
Context examples:
Georgiana took out her handkerchief and blew her nose for an hour afterwards; Eliza sat cold, impassable, and assiduously industrious.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
During January, February, and part of March, the deep snows, and, after their melting, the almost impassable roads, prevented our stirring beyond the garden walls, except to go to church; but within these limits we had to pass an hour every day in the open air.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
