Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not admitting passage; impassable.
  • Not current; not received in common payments; uncurrent: as, unpassable notes or coins.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Impassable.

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  • adjective Not able to be passed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective incapable of being passed

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Examples

  • I walked around, passing him within maybe six inches because of the unpassable cacti and underbrush on both sides of the trail.

    When in the Desert, Don’t Forget Water…or to Look Down « Looking for Roots 2009

  • In fact, he was one of Satan's minions, disguised as a bumbling idiot, tempting me with the sweet nectar of life in the form of an unpassable deal.

    One Cent Baby Nathaniel Tower 2011

  • New Yorkers endured a crippled transit system, completely overwhelmed emergency responders and unpassable roadways yesterday after one of the city's worst blizzards ever dumped a staggering 20 inches of snow.

    Blizzards and political fortunes E.J. Dionne 2010

  • They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • Beyond the well and passionately argued opinions on both sides, though, there are two facts which are undeniable: for better or worse, this bill passing the Senate keeps the process moving forward; and, for better or worse, the Senate bill is simply unpassable in the House.

    Mike Lux: Simple Facts 2009

  • Fourth, should the Senate move to proceed to the bill, we need to insure that a “gatekeeper” amendment is put in place to keep Reid from floor negotiations to make an unpassable bill passable.

    Hammond: Where we are on ObamaCare - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Like a lot of forces we generated a serial for adverse weather conditions, you know the sort of thing, council critters required, roads unpassable etc.

    Tough On Snow, Tough On The Throwers Of Snow! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • But there is a greater danger that an unstoppable chain reaction will begin: the rubbish will crash into other pieces of rubbish, causing it to shatter into smaller chunks that will then crash into each other -- and on, and on, until the earth is circled by a haze of unpassable metal debris that remains there for millennia.

    Johann Hari: The Strange Problem of Space Junk - And How It Threatens Our Way of Life 2009

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