Meanings
adjectiveinnavigable (comparative more innavigable, superlative most innavigable)
comparative more innavigable · superlative most innavigable
- Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships etc.
If you ſo hard a Toil will undertake, / As twice to paſs th’ innavigable Lake; […]
1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 368, lines 204–205Synonyms: unnavigable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveIncapable of being navigated; impassable by ships etc.
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Origin
- Latininnāvigābilis
- Englishinnavigable
From Latin innāvigābilis. By surface analysis, in- + navigable.
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