as in stoic
not feeling or showing emotion
years of living behind bars had rendered him impassible
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Recent Examples of impassible
On some of the country’s biggest lakes, often hundreds of miles wide with no current, an unfavorable wind made a waterway impassible.
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Outside,
7 Feb. 2026
This front will bring heavy snow to areas downwind of the Great Lakes, which could severely impact travel until Saturday and make some roads impassible.
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Gavon Laessig,
NBC news,
27 Nov. 2025
In Delaware and New Jersey, particularly the southern part of the state, coastal flooding could get bad enough to cause some roads to become impassible and some structures to flood, according to the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
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Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
The storm left 1,467 roads impassible, NCDOT said, cutting off several communities from the outside world.
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Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Sep. 2025
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Outside,
7 Feb. 2026
This front will bring heavy snow to areas downwind of the Great Lakes, which could severely impact travel until Saturday and make some roads impassible.
—
Gavon Laessig,
NBC news,
27 Nov. 2025
In Delaware and New Jersey, particularly the southern part of the state, coastal flooding could get bad enough to cause some roads to become impassible and some structures to flood, according to the National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
The storm left 1,467 roads impassible, NCDOT said, cutting off several communities from the outside world.
—
Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for impassible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impassible
Adjective
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The most remarkable performance in the film, however, may be that of real-life counselor Annette Deao, whose firm hand and sympathetic guidance lend Union County its stoic nature.
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Vladimir Petković, the usually stoic 62-year-old coach of Algeria, said he got goosebumps from the way Lawrence has treated his team.
Adjective
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Riles’s face is impassive, focused, as the announcer reads out the winner.
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Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads.
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“Impassible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impassible. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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