unbridgeable
adjective
un·bridge·able
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Definition of unbridgeable
: too wide to be crossed or joined by or as if by a bridge : unable to be bridged : not bridgeable
an unbridgeable river/chasm … an unbridgeable gulf between myth and reality.— Susan Cheever … an unbridgeable gap between the way people think here and the way they think practically everywhere else.— Meg Greenfield
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As a result, the spending gap between the top two teams in Spain has become unbridgeable. — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, "Column: Espanyol, the other Barcelona club, is secure in its future," 17 Aug. 2019 Their response shows how thoroughly love of Springsteen transcends what might seem to be unbridgeable differences of race and age and nationality. — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, "Finding Salvation in Springsteen From a London Suburb," 9 Aug. 2019 The action in the Wellfleet gym is a metaphor for polarization in the era of Donald Trump: Two groups looking at the same situation and drawing conclusions that are not just opposing but seemingly unbridgeable. — Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, "We’re afraid of sharks. But maybe we’re not afraid enough.," 9 July 2019 Boris Johnson leads Jeremy Hunt by an apparently unbridgeable margin. — Boris Johnson, The Economist, "Boris Johnson, illusionist," 4 July 2019 For better or worse, there is an unbridgeable divide between all of us. — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, "Mog the Cat and the Mysteries of Animal Subjectivity," 20 June 2019 The history of discovery is littered with apparently unbridgeable gaps. — Helen Czerski, WSJ, "The ‘Stick-Slip’ Beauty of Bow and String," 30 Jan. 2019 Now, though, horror filmmakers can summon up the same sensations of echoing, unbridgeable distance just by putting the characters in a room with a failing battery and no available power outlets. — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, "Modern horror films are finding their scares in dead phone batteries," 16 Aug. 2018 People separated by distance, distrust and a divide that has seemed increasingly unbridgeable in a state that has been identified as a political and ideological battleground for November’s midterm election. — David Montero, latimes.com, "Contrasting views as Trump visits Nevada: 'Best president we've ever had' to fears that 'it could get worse'," 24 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unbridgeable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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unbridgeable
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of unbridgeable
—used to say that two people, groups, or things are too widely separated or different from each other to ever be brought together, made to agree, etc.
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