insuperable

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Embankment; but the difficulty of shipment from so inaccessible a spot proving insuperable, the enterprise was abandoned.

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  1. adjective Impossible to overcome; insurmountable: insuperable odds.

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  • The difficulties of a real bonâ fide junction appear insuperable, and in anything short of that, duplicity and dishonesty might give them advantages which, though we should not certainly envy, yet we might have much cause to lament. —  Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third.
  • The difficulty--insuperable on ordinary monistic lines--is how all these things got into the germ if no additions ever take place. —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
  • He said he did not think that they were insuperable, and shortly after our conversation he left for England, promising to arrange everything with the Prime Minister and Kitchener Then came his letter, despatched on December 8th, after he had seen his colleagues in the Cabinet Kitchener agrees entirely with your view. —  1914
  • Many difficulties grew out of it, but still they were not insuperable--a certain clashing of authorities from time to time, and certain jealousy between the one and the other. —  London Lectures of 1907
  • The difficulties of a real bonâ fide junction appear insuperable, and in anything short of that duplicity and dishonesty might give them advantages which though we should not certainly envy, yet we might have much cause to lament. —  Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2)
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin īnsuperābilis : in-, not; see in-1 + superābilis, superable; see superable.

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  1. from Old French insuperable, insoperable = Spanish insuperable = Portuguese insuperavel=Italian insuperabile; as in- + superable.
 

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/ɪnˈsjupərəbl/
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