Insuperable
[ɪn'suːp(ə)rəb(ə)l;ɪn'sjuː] or [ɪn'supərəbl]
Definition
(adj.) impossible to surmount .
(adj.) incapable of being surmounted or excelled; 'insuperable odds'; 'insuperable heroes' .
Typist: Mabel--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Insurmountable, not to be overcome.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SUPERABLE]
Typist: Veronica
Definition
adj. that cannot be passed over: unconquerable.—n. Insuperabil′ity.—adv. Insū′perably.
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Examples
- I have called it insuperable, and I speak advisedly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I do not think that even _he_ could now hope to succeed with one of her stamp, and therefore I hope we may find no insuperable difficulty. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- If I meet with no insuperable difficulties therefore, consider that point as settled. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The opposition to the completed machine seemed insuperable, and Fisher, believing it to be so, at length withdrew from his partnership with Howe. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Neglect it--go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling--and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- No insuperable obstacles, given the intelligent will for its realization, stand in the way. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I see no prospect of the former, and there are many great, if not insuperable obstacles in the way of the latter. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Difficulties apparently insuperable have confronted him, only to melt away under his persistent genius until nothing seems impossible. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I pretend not, however, to pronounce it absolutely insuperable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The evidence given before the Committee was greatly in favor of steam carriages, and tended to show that there was no insuperable difficulty to the general adoption of them. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He felt at once the antagonism in the atmosphere, something radical and insuperable, and he bit his lip. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Am I severed from you by insuperable obstacles? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I am in a condition to prove my allegation: an insuperable impediment to this marriage exists. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We have an aviation that is insuperable. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Insuperable embarrassment seized Caroline when this demand was made. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I have questioned him on the subject, and I confess I see no insuperable objection to his being a clergyman, as things go. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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