unassailable

[uhn-uh-sey-luh-buhl]

adjective

1. not open to attack or assault, as by military force or argument.

   unassailable fortifications; unassailable logic.

2. not subject to denial or dispute.

   Shakespeare's genius gives his works an unassailable position in world literature.

unassailable

/ ˌʌnəˈseɪləbəl /

adjective

1. not able to be attacked

2. undeniable or irrefutable

Other Word Forms

• unassailability noun
• unassailableness noun
• unassailably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of unassailable¹

1590–1600; un- ¹ + assailable ( def. )

Example Sentences

The hosts now have two days to complete the victory that would give them an unassailable 3-1 series lead.

From BBC

These companies had an unassailable head start when it came to producing petrol or diesel-powered cars.

From BBC

Their arsenal demands complete vulnerability and unassailable empathy, allowing them not just to inhabit someone entirely different from themselves, but live inside the character.

From Salon

At the Ivors, I accidentally misquote this back to him as "an unassailable guitar record".

From BBC

After that bizarre election outcome last July, incoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a bluff, lawyerly person with no evident ideological convictions, arrived at 10 Downing Street with an unassailable majority but essentially no popular mandate.

From Salon

Related Words

• absolute 
• conclusive 
• indisputable 
• infallible 
• irrefutable 
• undeniable 
• unequivocal