uncrossable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Impossible to cross.
Example Sentences
- "There is what appears under normal circumstances to be an uncrossable boundary, a total barrier."
- "And it’s brilliantly stitched together by motifs of chrysalises and movies and by a joyous abundance of metaphor and simile: “the ding of a bicycle bell like struck crystal”; a woman “talking for much of the day in a steady soft uncrossable stream.”"
- "There are very few bridges on the footpaths in Skye and even short periods of heavy rain can cause rivers to rise rapidly, often making them uncrossable."
- "There are two Underground stations. That serving the District and Piccadilly is on one side of an uncrossable road called Hammersmith Broadway; that serving the Hammersmith & City is on the other side. Whichever exit you emerge from, at whichever station, you are immediately lost."
Etymology
From un- + crossable.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more uncrossable (comparative)
most uncrossable (superlative)