unnavigable

English

Alternative forms

• unnavigatable

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^[1], 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.

Synonyms

• innavigable

Translations

not navigable

• Finnish: kulkukelvoton
• Galician: innavegábel (gl)
• Greek: αδιάπλευστος (el) (adiáplefstos)

  Ancient: ἄπλωτος (áplōtos)

• Irish: dosheolta
• Manx: neuhiaullagh, do-hiaulley, neuhiaullee
• Russian: несудохо́дный (ru) m (nesudoxódnyj), несудохо́дная (ru) f (nesudoxódnaja), несудохо́дное (ru) n (nesudoxódnoje)