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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French impasse.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æmp??s/, /æm?p??s/, /??mp??s/, /?m?p??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??mpæs/, /?m?pæs/

Noun

impasse (plural impasses)

1. a road with no exit; a cul-de-sac [1851]
2. a deadlock or stalemate situation in which no progress can be made
   • 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest

     "Young man, this town is at a bit of an impasse. If you have any suggestion that might help, now would be the time to voice it."

Translations

References

Further reading

• impasse at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• pessima, sempais

French

Etymology

From im- +? passe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p?s/

Noun

impasse f (plural impasses)

1. stalemate, impasse (situation in which no progress can be made; not used in the chess sense of stalemate)
2. dead-end; cul-de-sac (street)

Derived terms

• faire l'impasse

Descendants

• ? English: impasse
• ? German: Impasse
• ? Italian: impasse
• ? Portuguese: impasse
• ? Spanish: impasse

Further reading

• “impasse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From French impasse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /im?pas.se/

Noun

impasse f (invariable)

1. impasse, dead-end, deadlock, stalemate

   Synonym: stallo

Anagrams

• pessima

Further reading

• impasse in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French impasse.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?.?pa.si/

Noun

impasse m (plural impasses)

1. impasse (a situation in which no progress can be made)

Further reading

• “impasse” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• impás

Etymology

Borrowed from French impasse.

Noun

impasse m (plural impasses)

1. impasse

Further reading

• “impasse” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From im- (“in”) +? paste. Compare Italian impastare, Old French empaster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pe?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st

Verb

impaste (third-person singular simple present impastes, present participle impasting, simple past and past participle impasted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.
2. (art) To lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.

References

impaste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• pastime, site map, sitemap