unclimbable
English
Etymology
From un- + climb + -able.
Adjective
unclimbable (not comparable)
- Not able to be climbed
- Those cliffs are unclimbable.
- 1963 August, “The semi-automatic Tees Yard of the North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, pages 123-124:
- The base of each [floodlight] tower forms an outdoor-type sub-station compound with a 7ft unclimbable fence which houses the extra high-voltage ring main switchgear, the transformer and the medium voltage switchgear.
- 1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 118:
- Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.
Antonyms
- climbable
Derived terms
- unclimbability
References
- “unclimbable”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.