as in stoic
not feeling or showing emotion
years of living behind bars had rendered him impassible
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Recent Examples of impassible
In three Alabama counties, officials warned that all roads are impassible.
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Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2025
It’s been virtually cut off from the outside world because of impassible roads.
—Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2024
Back in 2022, when the Lerner family tried to do just that, the media dispute proved an impassible roadblock, Sportico previously reported.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
The accident renewed the debate over crossing safety and led to some experimentation in placing impassible barriers at crossings instead of gates.
1950: An aardvark brought to the Brookfield Zoo from South Africa became only the second creature of its kind held in captivity in the United States.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
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Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2025
It’s been virtually cut off from the outside world because of impassible roads.
—Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2024
Back in 2022, when the Lerner family tried to do just that, the media dispute proved an impassible roadblock, Sportico previously reported.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
The accident renewed the debate over crossing safety and led to some experimentation in placing impassible barriers at crossings instead of gates.
1950: An aardvark brought to the Brookfield Zoo from South Africa became only the second creature of its kind held in captivity in the United States.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impassible
Adjective
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The film also gave Lerman a chance to flex comedic muscles rarely seen in his more stoic roles.—
Seija Rankin,
HollywoodReporter,
25 July 2025
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The typically stoic Powell looked at Trump and began shaking his head.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
24 July 2025
Adjective
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The impassive march of content and the shuffling tread of death.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
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The production of concrete consumes enormous resources to create structures that will never last as long as the ancient ones the film contrasts them with, but that’s not a context the impassive footage conveys.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Impassible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impassible. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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