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Definition of "impassible" [im•pas•si•ble]

  • Not subject to suffering, pain, or harm. (adjective)
  • Unfeeling; impassive. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "impassible" in a sentence
  • "Many streets on the city's south side were described as impassible, littered with downed trees and utility poles."
  • "Like space, like eternity, he is, in his own nature, as spirit, essentially impassible — impassible, that is, as related to force."
  • "Now it was, it is clear, that the sword of sorrow pierced her through and through, for the Queen of martyrs was fearfully and mortally wounded in that part which is impassible, that is, in her soul; and she bore the death of the Cross in that which could not die, suffering all the more her grievous inward death, as outward death departed farther from her."