impassable
adjective
not passable; not allowing passage over, through, along, etc..
impassability
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a word derived from
impassable.
Example Sentences
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Huge boulders margined the sides of it, and half-way up an encircling wall added to the impassability of the position.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke
But we were not as sorry to leave the basha as we might have been, and the reports of impassability substantiated themselves before we had got a mile out.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell
Until the preceding night Gideon Rolfe had seemed the calmest and most placable of fathers; nothing had occurred to ruffle his almost studied impassability.
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice
"Under the edicts, sire, of Cardinal Richelieu," returned D'Artagnan, with his usual impassability.
From Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas père
It is just a trackless wilderness, claiming thoroughfare by reason of the impassability of the rest of the country in that region.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
