Insurmountable
[,ɪnsə'maʊntəb(ə)l] or [,ɪnsɚ'maʊntəbl]
Definition
(adj.) not capable of being surmounted or overcome; 'insurmountable disadvantages' .
Typist: Theodore--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.
Checker: Zachariah
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Insuperable, not to be overcome, that cannot be surmounted.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INSUPERABLE]
Typed by Ethan
Definition
adj. not surmountable: that cannot be overcome.—n. Insurmountabil′ity.—adv. Insurmount′ably.
Checker: Reginald
Examples
- It was a great objection, but not an insurmountable one. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Insurmountable heaps sometimes opposed themselves; the still burning fires scorched me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In fact, he lodges at a-- Mr. Snagsby makes another bolt, as if the bit of bread and buffer were insurmountable --at a rag and bottle shop. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It involved mechanical complications that seemed to be insurmountable, and up to the time Edison invented his perforating machine no really good method was available. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I know there are great and almost insurmountable difficulties that will have to be encountered; but what I have said will come to pass as sure as we live. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- While I own the force of these objections, I must confess, at the same time, that they do not appear to me to be altogether insurmountable. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- His own determination never to enter into public life was insurmountable, and the delicacy of his health was a sufficient argument against it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- So insurmountable, as you must well know, would be his objections. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But, on the other hand, man is usually a wandering and enterprising animal, for whom there exist few insurmountable barriers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the difficulties of these early days were almost insurmountable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- While the art of electroplating would naturally suggest itself as the means of making such a mold, an apparently insurmountable obstacle appeared on the very threshold. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I have yet heard of none, however, which appear insurmountable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But as usual this apparently insurmountable difficulty only spurred him on to further effort. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Checker: Reginald