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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesimpraticable
Pronunciation / Transliteration: ɛ̃.pʁa.ti.kabl
"La route était impraticable à cause des inondations."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
Impossible to travel across, traverse, or navigate.
"The heavy snowfall rendered the mountain pass completely untraversable." - 2
In computing or graph theory, incapable of being traversed or explored along a path.
"A corrupted pointer in the memory structure created an untraversable node loop."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the English prefix un- (meaning 'not') combined with traversable, which stems from Middle English and Old French traverser ('to cross'), tracing ultimately back to the Latin transversus ('turned across'). The term evolved in geographical and technical contexts to describe physical terrain or digital pathways that cannot be crossed, traveled across, or navigated.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Untraversable" is said worldwide
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impraticable
Transliteration: ɛ̃.pʁa.ti.kabl
"La route était impraticable à cause des inondations."
unpassierbar
Transliteration: ʊnpaˈsiːɐ̯baːɐ̯
"Der steile Pfad war für Wanderer unpassierbar."
impraticabile
Transliteration: im.pra.tiˈkaː.bi.le
"Il sentiero di montagna era impraticabile a causa della neve."
intransitable
Transliteration: in.tɾan.siˈta.βle
"El camino quedó intransitable tras la tormenta."
intransitável
Transliteration: ĩ.trɐ̃.ziˈta.vɛw
"A ponte destruída tornou a estrada intransitável."
अगम्य
Transliteration: agamya
"भारी बारिश के कारण रास्ता अगम्य हो गया था।"
无法通行的
Transliteration: wú fǎ tōng háng de
"暴风雪过后，这条山路无法通行。"
다닐 수 없는
Transliteration: danil su eomneun
"폭설로 인해 산길을 다닐 수 없게 되었다."
通行不能の
Transliteration: tsūkō funō no
"大雪のため、その峠道は通行不能となった。"
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