impassable
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Synonyms & Antonyms for impassable
Synonyms
impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, impregnable
Antonyms
negotiable, passable, penetrable, permeable
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The gate to Spinney Mountain Access Road is closed, and the road is impassable. — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, "Damage from flooding, hail close Access Road to Spinney Mountain State Park," 4 Sep. 2019 In Gloucester, fire officials urged the public to avoid travel because many roads were impassable because of flooding and downed trees and wires. — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, "Severe thunderstorms took down trees, power lines from Boston to Gloucester," 1 Aug. 2019 And then there are the rights of residents and merchants to consider, some of whom complain that sidewalks are impassable or storefronts are blocked. — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, "Column: The city has a growing mountain of possessions confiscated from homeless people," 31 July 2019 The climate is especially harsh; in the summer, many of the local roads are impassable because of monsoons. — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, "“Bodies and minds are breaking down”: Inside US border agency’s suicide crisis," 2 July 2019 Earlier, the water main break had rendered the entire intersection impassable. — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "A water main break closes southbound left-turn lanes on North 124th Street in Wauwatosa," 9 July 2019 Billions of Legos would soon be strewn throughout our national parks, rendering the hiking trails into hostile, impassable wastelands. — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, "Be Yourself, the Screen Commanded," 25 July 2019 The heat is drying up some of Europe’s busiest rivers, making stretches of the Danube impassable to cargo and cruise ships and prompting at least eight nuclear reactors in France to scale back output. — William Wilkes And Megan Durisin / Bloomberg, Time, "Paris Could Hit 108 Degrees Thursday as Record-Breaking Heat Wave Scorches Europe," 25 July 2019 By early Wednesday, floodwaters had already made streets in several New Orleans neighborhoods impassable and closed City Hall and public libraries. — Brent Kendall, WSJ, "Gulf of Mexico States Brace for Potential Hurricane," 10 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'impassable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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