uncrossable
English
Etymology
un- + crossable
Adjective
uncrossable (comparative more uncrossable, superlative most uncrossable)
- Impossible to cross.
- 1999, Robert D. Abbott, The World as Information: Overload and Personal Design, →ISBN, page 38:
- There is what appears under normal circumstances to be an uncrossable boundary, a total barrier.
- 2009 August 16, Max Byrd, “Rosie and Friends”, in New York Times:
- And it’s brilliantly stitched together by motifs of chrysalises and movies and by a joyous abundance of metaphor and simile: “the ding of a bicycle bell like struck crystal”; a woman “talking for much of the day in a steady soft uncrossable stream.”
- 2009 August 24, Rita Campbell, “Father and young son die in loch tragedy”, in The Press and Journal:
- There are very few bridges on the footpaths in Skye and even short periods of heavy rain can cause rivers to rise rapidly, often making them uncrossable.
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