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insuperable
[ in-soo-per-uh-buhl ]
adjective
- incapable of being passed over, overcome, or surmounted:
an insuperable barrier.
insuperable
/ -prəbəl; -ˈsjuː-; ɪnˈsuːpərəbəl /
adjective
- incapable of being overcome; insurmountable
Derived Forms
- inˈsuperably, adverb
- inˌsuperaˈbility, noun
Other Words From
- in·super·a·bili·ty in·super·a·ble·ness noun
- in·super·a·bly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of insuperable1
Example Sentences
Second, they broke down the wall between teen music and adult music, a wall that had been insuperable until then.
But 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 poorer towns felt themselves aggrieved, and often put insuperable obstacles in the way of the collector.
But there was one great and perhaps insuperable obstacle in working from the Rongbuk Valley.
In mountain climbing, however, the almost insuperable difficulty is the weight of the apparatus supplying the oxygen.
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