Definitions for insurmountable
ˌɪn sərˈmaʊn tə bəlin·sur·mount·able

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. insurmountable, unsurmountableadjective

   not capable of being surmounted or overcome

   "insurmountable disadvantages"

2. insuperable, insurmountableadjective

   impossible to surmount

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. insurmountableadjective

   Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.

2. Etymology: * in- + surmountable

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Insurmountableadjective

   Insuperable; unconquerable.

   Etymology: insurmontable, Fr. in and surmountable.

   This difficulty is insurmountable, 'till I can make simplicity and variety the same. John Locke.

   Hope thinks nothing difficult; despair tells us, that difficulty is insurmountable. Isaac Watts.

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1. insurmountable

   Insurmountable refers to a problem, difficulty, or obstacle that is too great or extreme to overcome, handle or solve.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Insurmountableadjective

   incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Insurmountable

   in-sur-mownt′a-bl, adj. not surmountable: that cannot be overcome.—n. Insurmountabil′ity.—adv. Insurmount′ably.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of insurmountable in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of insurmountable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of insurmountable in a Sentence

1. Bob Pinnegar:

   Each passing month further escalates the risk of losing an ever increasing amount of rental housing, ultimately jeopardizing the availability of safe, sustainable and affordable housing for all Americans, flawed eviction moratoriums leave renters with insurmountable debt and housing providers holding the bag as our nation's housing affordability crisis spirals into a housing affordability disaster.

2. Nora Sausmikat:

   Bureaucratic hurdles, which have never been easily managed in China, have now become nearly insurmountable.

3. Chad Petit:

   It's not insurmountable, we can design better vaccines that might overcome this discrepancy.

4. Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters:

   Unless you have consistently qualified correction officers, solving the other problems we care about is an almost insurmountable task, this is just a function of, for a decade, hirings and screenings and investigations being ignored.

5. Luke Ryan:

   In addition to erecting sometimes insurmountable barriers to re-entry, legal financial obligations require probation and parole officers to allocate substantial time to acting as collection agents that could otherwise be devoted to rehabilitation and public safety.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=insurmountable
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Insurmountable
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=insurmountable
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insurmountable
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=insurmountable
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=insurmountable