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English
Etymology
From 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.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 50:There are two Underground stations. That serving the District and Piccadilly is on one side of an uncrossable road called Hammersmith Broadway; that serving the Hammersmith & City is on the other side. Whichever exit you emerge from, at whichever station, you are immediately lost.