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/məˈkædəm/ · noun
(uncountable) The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic)..
This narrow-gauge line had suffered the same fate as that between Schull and Skibbereen, with the track taken up except where it runs through one of the town streets and is embedded in the macadam.
Use macadam when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Macadam means (uncountable) The surface of a road consisting of layers of crushed stone (usually tar-coated for modern traffic)..
Common synonyms include macadamize, asphalt, tarmac, paved.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This narrow-gauge line had suffered the same fate as that between Schull and Skibbereen, with the track taken up except where it runs through one of the town streets and is embedded in the macadam.
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