unnavigatable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "A week ago to-day, the launching and christening the first and only steamer on the James river, said to be the longest unnavigatable stream known, took place at Jamestown."
- "Lake Michigan has been almost unnavigatable on account of the smoke and fog."
- "Owing to the fact that the river will be so low as to be unnavigatable within the next few weeks, the contractors on the new bridge are having a large amount of supplies and building material brought down the river."
- "At certain seasons of the year the streams of that region are unnavigatable because of the clouds of the insects which fill the air and make life unbearable."
- "The launch was found tossing in the heavy seas, coated with ice both inside and out, off the Isles of Shoals, fifteen miles from port, to which point it had drifted after the engine had broken down, leaving the craft unnavigatable."
- "Checking the Board’s Web page on LAUSD.NET reveals a poorly designed, almost unnavigatable textual collage of links to “Understanding Board Meetings,” “Board Rules,” and “Board Agendas,” but finding out where and when is completely oblique."
Etymology
From un- + navigatable.
Inflected Forms
more unnavigatable (comparative)
most unnavigatable (superlative)