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What is "unbridgeable"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unbridgeable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unbridgeable gap (=a gap that cannot be closed)
▪ He felt that there was an unbridgeable gap between the negotiating positions of the two sides.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gap
▪ Looking to the past, she seeks to illuminate the present, believing there to be no unbridgeable gap between the two.
▪ It appears, at times that there is an unbridgeable gap between what contemporary business uses and what the school does.
gulf
▪ It was an almost unbridgeable gulf.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide - and unbridgeable.
▪ For an impecunious woman of twenty-nine, the gulf was unbridgeable.
▪ Fundamental to Frege's whole approach is the assumption that there exists an unbridgeable logical gulf between concepts and objects.
▪ He drew an unbridgeable line between this élite and rank-and-file workers.
▪ It was an almost unbridgeable gulf.
▪ Looking to the past, she seeks to illuminate the present, believing there to be no unbridgeable gap between the two.
▪ The distance between them, he wrote, is not so much great as unbridgeable.
▪ The story of Ruth illuminates for me the unbridgeable difference, rather than the similarity, between her situation and mine.
Wiktionary
unbridgeable

a. Unable to be bridged or crossed; impossible to span. alt. Unable to be bridged or crossed; impossible to span.

WordNet
unbridgeable

adj. not bridgeable; "a wide unbridgeable river"; "unbridgeable generation gap" [ant: bridgeable]

Usage examples of "unbridgeable".

Lun and Phari ridges both run south, the gap between them widening to unbridgeable distances south of the cableway we have just crossed.

Ego and Eco were still staring at each other across an unbridgeable gulf, and the two absolutisms were altogether incompatible.

From Chomo Lori, the K'un Lun and Phari ridges both run south, the gap between them widening to unbridgeable distances south of the cableway we have just crossed.

But the lesson had been brought home when, in the course of a conversation, they found themselves separated by a sudden, unbridgeable gap-Jacob had told a story about Earth's old class struggles that Culla failed to understand.

What looked like a vast, unbridgeable gulf between the life sciences and the physical sciences is shrinking so fast that it's turning out to be little more than a thin line scratched in the sand of the scientific desert.