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Meanings of unscalable in English

Incapable of being ascended.

Usage of unscalable in English
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This would have been an unscalable obstacle for anyone but the Soviets.
Wired
2
They are a boundary, a dividing line, a wall impregnable and unscalable.
The Night-Born
3
Its sides were in parts steep, and unscalable in face of determined resistance.
In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
4
Before us spread the Sojar Az, and elsewhere about us rose unscalable cliffs.
Pellucidar
5
It was equally unscalable, and much more difficult to undermine or batter down.
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
6
At its upper end, it was blocked by a wall of unscalable heights.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
7
The threat of the Warlock Lord loomed before them like a towering, unscalable wall.
The Sword of Shannara
8
Sheer for several hundred feet, the shore is here unscalable.
Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
9
She felt shut in from the world, lost in an unscalable rut of the earth.
The Call of the Canyon
10
This implausible agrarian society comes with nice looking backpacks and is surrounded by unscalable walls.
The Irish Times
11
Above and beyond him towered the pitiless unscalable rocks.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
12
Above him sprang the height of crag, seemingly unscalable.
Foes
13
The open sea was like a blank and unscalable wall imprisoning the eternal question of conduct.
Romance
14
The article describes the attempt to reach it, the unscalable mountain, the treachery of the climb.
A Hundred Thousand Worlds
15
The fortress had been built to the most rigorous of standards, its polished gray walls unscalable.
The Scarlet Gospels
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The bridge was four miles above, but unscalable walls made it impossible for him to reach that.
I Married a Ranger
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