Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Impossible to surmount; insuperable: insurmountable difficulties.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not surmountable; incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome.
Wiktionary
- adj. Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. impossible to surmount
- adj. not capable of being surmounted or overcome
Examples
“Dean Knowles, the most senior dean in the country, said the cathedral clergy had been put "under a great deal of strain" as they faced what he described as "insurmountable issues" and that his position had become "untenable".”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“What would be the point of the remaining contests if Obama's lead after Tuesday in insurmountable?”
“We were inclosed by a natural wall, rising steep on every side to a height which produced the idea of insurmountable confinement.”
“But it was in implementing privatization, against odds that could only be called insurmountable, that”
“But it was in implementing privatization, against odds that could only be called insurmountable, that he was to truly hone his skills.”
“Investors are interpreting the insouciance -- with Sarkozy saying that losing the AAA rating isn't "insurmountable" -- to mean that France has accepted the inevitable.”
“Of course, as McIntyre himself notes, the last time there was a dust-up like this, it was over Thomas P.M. Barnett's Esquire piece on Admiral William "Fox" Fallon, and that obviously didn't pave the way to some kind of insurmountable firewall between military brass and reporters like Hastings.”
“To suppose God is bound by time is necessary for your paradox to cause 'insurmountable' issues.”
“Who would have thought that in an election with more than 2.8 million votes cast that a 225-vote margin would constitute an "insurmountable" lead?”
With Recount Complete And More Ballots Counted, Franken's Lead Appears To Be Insurmountable
“One page cites the explicit concern that he might "drop out of [the] race" as a consequence of his potentially "insurmountable" personal and political vulnerabilities.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘insurmountable’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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apjoseph's words
insurmountable, ubiquitous, unequivocal, incumbent, asinine, amenable, sycophants, precarious, malevolent, gregarious, raison detra, nefarious and 200 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, I
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five syllables
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Sense and Sensibility
Words from the book by Jane Austen.
shew, shewn, shewing, shewed, dupe, wither, rambled, extorting, cavil, rap, mildness, controuled and 133 more...
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Wordplay
reticent, slammerkin, moonstruck, zephyr, gallivant, hullabaloo, pandemonium, equestrian, wallflower, martyr, threadbare, treacherous and 180 more...
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collection
sanguine, vie, antebellum, glacial, treacly, iconoclast, lissom, anathema, serendipity, parsimonious, histrionic, contemptuous and 279 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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GRE
acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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Big Book #2 List
absolution, restitution, contrition, moratorium, nautical, nirvana, pandemonium, perennial, symposium, dialectic, dipsomaniacal, ecumenical and 117 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 350 more...
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Vocalublary Awareness
Words I need to use more to increase my vocabulary.
incredulous, prolific, ubiquitous, egregious, aplomb, resilience, persevere, punctilious, perspicacious, inordinate, articulate, enunciate and 199 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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