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Untraversable vs Untravellable - What's the difference?

untraversable | untravellable | Synonyms |

Untraversable is a synonym of untravellable.


As adjectives the difference between untraversable and untravellable

is that untraversable is cannot be traversed while untravellable is unsuitable for or hostile to travel; incapable of being journeyed over or upon.

untraversable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Cannot be traversed.

    • untravellable

    English

    Alternative forms

    * untravelable

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Unsuitable for or hostile to travel; incapable of being journeyed over or upon.
  • * 1793 , William Marshall, Rural Economy of the Midland Counties , Dublin, p. 43:
    • By encreasing the hollowness of a wide carriage road, much beyond the utility of form, the margins might no doubt be brought into a travellable state; whereas, of a flat road, in a wet season, every part, from side to side becomes equally untravellable .
  • * 1848 , , Letters of Edward Lear (2008 edition), ISBN 9781408683163, p. 8:
    • Greece however is in a very untravellable state just now.
  • * 1855 , , vol. 11, " Petition Extraordinary":
    • [I]n this parish—without rectory, without school, without rector, with a pauper population, and untravellable roads—your petitioner spent upwards of seven months.
  • Unable to travel.
  • * 1890 , The New South Wales Law Reports, 1880-1900 , vol. 10, p. 337:
    • . . . the defendant to have the right to reject 1000 sheep from the number mustered, which were to include lame or untravellable sheep.

    Synonyms

    * (incapable of being journeyed over) impassable, untraversable