insuperable
incapable of being passed over, overcome, or surmounted: an insuperable barrier.
Origin of insuperable
1Other words from insuperable
- in·su·per·a·bil·i·ty, in·su·per·a·ble·ness, noun
- in·su·per·a·bly, adverb
Words Nearby insuperable
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How to use insuperable in a sentence
Second, they broke down the wall between teen music and adult music, a wall that had been insuperable until then.
A Revolution, With Guitars: How The Beatles Changed Everything | Michael Tomasky | January 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut he prefers women - and most certainly does not love the baron, for the insuperable reason that he loves nobody except himself.
Not necessarily an insuperable or lethal problem, but a problem that must be overcome—and certainly not a plus.
There's a seemingly insuperable urge among some to tell the story of the Euro crisis in racial terms.
In every point of view, the project of a fixed duty is exposed to insuperable objections.
They agreed that the offence of the State prayers should be no longer an insuperable bar.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century | Charles J. Abbey and John H. OvertonThe poorer towns felt themselves aggrieved, and often put insuperable obstacles in the way of the collector.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington GreeneBut there was one great and perhaps insuperable obstacle in working from the Rongbuk Valley.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-BuryIn mountain climbing, however, the almost insuperable difficulty is the weight of the apparatus supplying the oxygen.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
British Dictionary definitions for insuperable
/ (ɪnˈsuːpərəbəl, -prəbəl, -ˈsjuː-) /
incapable of being overcome; insurmountable
Derived forms of insuperable
- insuperability or insuperableness, noun
- insuperably, adverb
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