impassable vs passable

impassable

adj
  • Incapable of being overcome or surmounted. 

  • Not usable as legal tender. 

  • Incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated. 

passable

adj
  • able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard one as belonging. 

  • That may be passed or traversed. 

  • Tolerable; adequate; no more than satisfactory. 

How often have the words impassable and passable occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )