unnavigable

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Etymology

From un- +‎ navigable.

Adjective

unnavigable (comparative more unnavigable, superlative most unnavigable)

  1. Not navigable. Difficult or impossible to navigate.
    unnavigable website
    1. (nautical) impossible to sail through
      • 1950 May, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Tanganyika Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 298:
        A road journey of 70 miles past unnavigable rapids leads to Juba, from which it is seven days' steaming down river through to Kosti, on the Sudan Railways.
      • 1996 January, “Southern Tibet”, in Gyurme Dorje, editor, Tibet Handbook: with Bhutan, Passport Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 288, column 1:
        Nang county is the name given to the present administrative division of E Dakpo, the principal gateway to the sacred mountain of Tsari, and the region through which the Brahmaputra River cuts its way through an unnavigable 33 km horse-shoe gorge as it flows towards Longpo and Kongpo.
    2. (of a path, trail, or route) that cannot be used for any reason.
      The trail was unnavigable since the flood washed it away.

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