unbridgeable

Examples

• All

• In a nutshell, fundamentalists are deeply pessimistic about the prospects for world order and see an unbridgeable divide between believers and nonbelievers.

  Academic text (2006)

• The gap between madness and normality, reality, and truth is conventionally depicted as unbridgeable.

  Academic text (2009)

• So I think that the the gap is unbridgeable, but it is done if we lose any of the next four or five games.

• "Depending on my audience, I tell this story as a tale about racial difference, about the unbridgeable gap between black and white.

  Academic text (2007)

• Indeed, even the gulf between political actor and social scientist is now likely unbridgeable.

  Academic text (1996)

• First, the distance between her own status and Bertram's seems unbridgeable.

  Academic text (2005)

• It also undeniably shows the unbridgeable gap widening between the former wartime allies.

• But this conception of rationality still leaves potentially unbridgeable gulfs between motives and between worldviews.

  Academic text (1992)

• The conflict has created an unbridgeable divide between the two communities.

• Despite their efforts, there seemed to be an unbridgeable gap in understanding between the two sides.

Synonyms

I

insurmountable

vsunbridgeable

33 8.5

Impossible to get past

adds the idea of failing to connect or reconcile as well as overcome

I

irreparable

vsunbridgeable

24 7.6

Too badly damaged to be fixed or made right again

concerns fixing damage rather than inability to connect, cross, or reconcile

I

impassable

vsunbridgeable

13 5.3

A road, path, or area you cannot travel through

is broader, covering both physical crossing and inability to connect or reconcile

U

unconquerable

vsunbridgeable

4 7.3

Too strong for anyone to defeat

applies more broadly to gaps and disconnections rather than just defeat

I

insuperable

vsunbridgeable

• Formal

2 9.1

So hard that no one can get past it

includes impossible connection or reconciliation, not only inability to beat it

U

undefeatable

vsunbridgeable

2 4.9

Too strong for anyone to beat

focuses instead on being impossible to join, connect, or reconcile not contest

U

uncrossable

vsunbridgeable

1 5.6

Too dangerous or blocked to go across

is broader, meaning cannot be connected, crossed, or reconciled socially or practically

U

unbreachable

vsunbridgeable

1 7.7

So strong that no one can break into or get past it

focuses more widely on inability to connect or reconcile rather than force alone

U

unsurmountable

vsunbridgeable

1 8.1

Impossible to overcome or get past, like a problem you cannot solve

stresses inability to link or bridge situations as well as to pass them

U

untraversable

vsunbridgeable

1 9.1

Not possible to cross by people or vehicles

is more general, applying also to gaps between people or ideas

U

unpassable

vsunbridgeable

1 6.9

A road or path that people cannot cross

extends beyond travel to mean impossible to connect or bridge in general

U

unnavigable

vsunbridgeable

1 8.7

Too difficult to travel through, for example a river, sea or road

is more abstract, covering inability to form a link or overcome a gap

I

inexpugnable

vsunbridgeable

9.9

No one can beat or prove it wrong

is less about contest and more about being impossible to join or reconcile

U

unsoluble

vsunbridgeable

9.4

Not able to be fixed or changed

adds the idea of an impossible gap rather than only an unsolvable problem

I

impassible

vsunbridgeable

9.2

Impossible to travel through because obstacles block the way

is wider, also applying to severe gaps that cannot be reconciled

Antonyms

R

reconcilable

1 5.6

People can make them agree or work together

B

bridgeable

1 5.8

Something you can cross with a bridge or connect with understanding

How Difficult

insurmountable

33 8.5

unbridgeable

1 8.0

difficult

∞ 1.6

manageable

57 3.2

easy

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology