Hypertext Webster Gateway: "impasse"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Impasse \Im`passe"\ ([a^]N`p[aum]s"; E. [i^]m*p[.a]s"), n. [F.]
An impassable road or way; a blind alley; cul-de-sac; fig., a
position or predicament affording no escape.
The issue from the present impasse will, in all
probability, proceed from below, not from above.
--Arnold
White.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
impasse
n 1: a situation in which no progress can be made: "reached an
impasse on the negotiations" [syn: {deadlock}, {stalemate},
{standstill}]
2: a street with only one way in or out [syn: {blind alley}, {cul
de sac}, {dead-end street}]
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