unnavigable adjective3 •Not navigable: difficult or impossible to navigate. •Impossible to sail through; impassible to watercraft, unusable as a waterway (for example, too shallow).A road journey of 70 miles past unnavigable rapids leads to Juba, from which it is seven days' steaming down river through to Kosti, on the Sudan Railways. — 1950 •That is totally impassible: cannot be used for any reason.The trail was unnavigable since the flood washed it away. formsmore unnavigable · most unnavigable