- a passage open only at one end; blind alley
- a situation offering no escape, as a difficulty without solution, an argument where no agreement is possible, etc.
Origin of impasse
Fr: see in- and pass
noun
- An example of impasse is a blind alley.
- An example of impasse is an argument where no agreement is reached.
The definition of an impasse is something from which there is no escape or solution.
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noun
- A road or passage having no exit; a cul-de-sac.
- A situation that is so difficult that no progress can be made; a deadlock or a stalemate: reached an impasse in the negotiations.
Origin of impasse
French in- not ( from Latin in- ; see in- 1. ) passe a passing ( from Old French) ( from passer to pass ; see pass . )THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural impasses)
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Sentence Examples
- However, oftentimes the former employer and the applicant come to an impasse on the reason for termination, especially when either one or both of the parties is lying or they have a different interpretation of the same events.
- Parents of teens frequently find themselves at an impasse over a variety of issues.
- Escape from this impasse, and among his Socratic contemporaries he seems to have singled out Antisthenes 4 as most in need of refutation.
- The exchange of despatches soon led to a complete impasse.
- This time the Poles came to the rescue of the Government in its hour of need, by getting a form of standing order approved which rendered obstruction somewhat more difficult, and in this, curiously enough, they were helped by the Czechs; for obstruction had brought even them into an impasse, since their financial requirements had not been met.
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