unclimbable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.18 in modern English

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adj

"Those cliffs are unclimbable."
"The base of each [floodlight] tower forms an outdoor-type sub-station compound with a 7ft unclimbable fence which houses the extra high-voltage ring main switchgear, the transformer and the medium voltage switchgear."
"Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain."

Etymology tree English un- English climb Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English unclimbable From un- + climb + -able.

unclimbability unclimbableness unclimbably

climbable

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What does unclimbable mean?

Not able to be climbed

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