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unclimbable

adj

Etymology

From un- + climb + -able.

  1. derived from *gley-✻
  2. derived from *klibaną✻
  3. inherited from *klimbaną✻ — “to climb, go up by clinging”
  4. inherited from *klimban✻
  5. inherited from climban
  6. inherited from climben
  7. formed as unclimbable — “un- + climb + -able”

Definitions

  1. Not able to be climbed

    • Those cliffs are unclimbable.
    • The base of each [floodlight] tower forms an outdoor-type sub-station compound with a 7ft unclimbable fence which houses the extra high-voltage ring main switchgear, the transformer and the medium voltage switchgear.
    • Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unclimbable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA