Definitions
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- adjective Not able to be
climbed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of being ascended
- adjective incapable of being surmounted or climbed
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fifty years ago, climbers conquered the “unclimbable” El Capitan; today climbers and visitors are still seduced by Yosemite granite.
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El Cap was considered unclimbable, but a mountaineer named Warren Harding was determined to do it.
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Fifty years ago, climbers conquered the “unclimbable” El Capitan; today climbers and visitors are still seduced by Yosemite granite.
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El Cap was considered unclimbable, but a mountaineer named Warren Harding was determined to do it.
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Fifty years ago, climbers conquered the “unclimbable” El Capitan; today climbers and visitors are still seduced by Yosemite granite.
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El Cap was considered unclimbable, but a mountaineer named Warren Harding was determined to do it.
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Especially if the city is older than time, built on the slopes of an uneasily slumbering volcano, atop murmuring catacombs, and the eldritch ruins where men fear to tread loom over the unclimbed and unclimbable far side of the volcano, and strange musics or shrieks of nonhuman laughter ring across the ashy slopes when the moon is dark, or, in the case of Mars, moons.
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It depicts a future where aliens sent back soul collecting devices in time and gathered all the human souls from the beginning of the species up to about the year 2000 and then re-made everyone's bodies and put the souls back in and deposited them on a planet with a twisting, million mile long river valley bordered by unclimbable mountains on each side.
The Afterlife in Fiction and Movies trinfaneb 2008
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Devices that ranged from a metal rod to a portable geosonar would give him a more exact idea of what sort of footing lay buried under what depth of unclimbable sand-ice.
The Clique 2010
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Making sure that the sort of suicidally insane fuckwits who go hauling themselves up unclimbable mountains stop pissing in the gene pool for once and for all.
Touching Duh Void juliette 2009
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