adj
Meaning 1
Not navigable: difficult or impossible to navigate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonym: impassible
- unnavigable website
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: innavigable, impassible
Antonyms: navigable
Standard Lemma guide
unnavigable
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adj
Meaning 2
Not navigable: difficult or impossible to navigate.
Impossible to sail through; impassible to watercraft, unusable as a waterway (for example, too shallow).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: innavigable, impassible
Antonyms: navigable
adj
Meaning 3
Not navigable: difficult or impossible to navigate.
That is totally impassible: cannot be used for any reason.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: trail; or route; trail; or route
Examples
- The trail was unnavigable since the flood washed it away.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: innavigable, impassible
Antonyms: navigable
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
incapable of being navigated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English navigable English unnavigable From un- + navigable.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: innavegable — not navigable
- Finnish: kulkukelvoton — not navigable
- French: innavigable — not navigable
- Galician: innavegábel — not navigable
- Greek: αδιάπλευστος (adiáplefstos) — not navigable
- Ancient Greek: ἄπλωτος (áplōtos) — not navigable
- Irish: dosheolta — not navigable
- Manx: neuhiaullagh — not navigable
- Manx: do-hiaulley — not navigable
- Manx: neuhiaullee — not navigable
- Portuguese: inavegável — not navigable
- Russian: несудохо́дный (nesudoxódnyj) — not navigable
- Spanish: innavegable — not navigable