unnavigable

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un- +‎ navigable

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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.
    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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