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insurmountable

[in-ser-moun-tuh-buhl]

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adjective

incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.

Origin:
1690–1700; in-³ + surmountable

Related forms

in·sur·mount·a·bil·i·ty, in·sur·mount·a·ble·ness, noun

in·sur·mount·a·bly, adverb

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Example Sentences

People who have suffered an emotional trauma or a brain injury often find housecleaning an insurmountable task.

One problem that may be insurmountable is the difference in cultures between high school and college.

But the real differences between the two sides may be insurmountable.

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People who have suffered an emotional trauma or a brain injury often find housecleaning an insurmountable task.

One problem that may be insurmountable is the difference in cultures between high school and college.

But the real differences between the two sides may be insurmountable.

Soon you'll be doing filthy tricks that you once dreamed were insurmountable.

The insurmountable hurdle in all the studies, he says, is that women often have persistent cycles of different lengths.

There are problems to be solved, but they probably aren't insurmountable.

Some of those programs hit insurmountable technical obstacles.

The woman fantasized about having a face-lift for years, but had an insurmountable fear of the knife.

Remedial math has become an insurmountable barrier for many students, ending their aspirations for higher education.

But the obstacles have proved insurmountable for all but niche applications, such as medical imaging.

Shortly you'll be executing filthy stunts that you once concluded were insurmountable.

However, steps that are reasonable prior to a pandemic may nearly become insurmountable obstacles during a pandemic.

The sequel pits players against a new, apparently insurmountable foe.

The difficulties which lie in the way of this movement are certainly huge and apparently insurmountable.

Or should he first visit a friend who, he knew, had something that could help him meet the seemingly insurmountable.

The one insurmountable obstacle has been the rivalry between city, provincial and federal governments.

In a short time you'll be accomplishing nasty stunts that you once dreamed were insurmountable.

Those are technical problems and they are not insurmountable.

In spite of huge, almost insurmountable difficulties, the determination to create something better comes through clearly.

Immigrants being who they are, these hurdles are seldom insurmountable.

Dual-career academics face almost insurmountable problems unless they are already academic stars.

Difficulties range from the inconvenient to the insurmountable.

In a short time you'll be achieving nasty stunts that you once speculated were insurmountable.

Nobody to talk to when problems seem insurmountable during the day.

You're right, that is a pretty insurmountable hurdle.

Monopolies exist where there are insurmountable barriers to entry.

Soon you'll be executing nasty stunts that you once dreamed were insurmountable.

One of the biggest proposed law firm mergers of the last year has been called off, the victim of too many insurmountable issues.

These challenges are not even slightly insurmountable.

The insurmountable problem in each case proved to be the mast.

Even visas are not insurmountable and technology has helped in that regard.

To encapsulate what you meant to us in words is an insurmountable task.

Admittedly, lab courses are a problem, though not an insurmountable one.

It also shows that the barriers to entry, though still higher than in equities, are far from insurmountable.

Difficulties almost insurmountable were encountered.

Even if a case eventually came to court, the general's own amnesty law would probably prove an insurmountable obstacle.

But it does have an agricultural college with professors itching to solve seemingly insurmountable problems.

Seeing its journey provided a powerful lesson that few challenges are insurmountable.

Not long ago, gene therapy seemed troubled by insurmountable difficulties.

These are legitimate concerns, but none seems insurmountable.

But making executions humane does not seem as if it is an insurmountable problem.

These conceptual problems should not be insurmountable.

Delaware standards for proving director oversight liability are virtually insurmountable.

Private income-protection insurance in the event of long-term unemployment may pose insurmountable problems.

Decentralisation is an almost insurmountable challenge for public-transport systems.

None of these seemed insurmountable though, or deal killers though.

It did not, and cloaks itself in secrecy, pointing to insurmountable difficulties and threats when anyone questions its position.

It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations.

Surely this can't be an insurmountable problem for a company that has long been a market leader in bomb disposal robots.

It can teach us about living, surviving, and winning in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

Although getting advertisers on board will take some effort, it's not an insurmountable obstacle.

Yes, gamers are currently inundated with critically acclaimed shooters starring grim, determined men facing insurmountable odds.

If you have decision rights, you'll have to go through the steps, but it's not insurmountable.

With the subtlety and grace of your garden-variety infomercial, it lays out its litany of insurmountable problems.

The problem is not insurmountable as demonstrated in other jurisdictions.

We can, as they did, create insurmountable problems in almost no time flat.

The print ads had featured anonymous athletes competing against seemingly insurmountable odds:.

Just the facts alone tally up to an insurmountable well of emotions:.

K vows then and there to marry this woman of his dreams, even though the obstacles are seemingly insurmountable.

The insurmountable obstacle to exit is neither economic nor political, then, but procedural.

Lange has played before: tough, solid and a little weary, hardened by all the insurmountable troubles she has seen.

To do this, you must give your name and address-hardly an insurmountable obstacle.

But there is one insurmountable problem: the choreography.

Each said in the interviews that racism had been a fact of life, but none said it had been an insurmountable obstacle.

Bonded child labor is neither inevitable nor insurmountable.

The challenge of removing the euro is not insurmountable.

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World English Dictionary

insurmountable (ˌɪnsəˈmaʊntəb^əl)

—*adj*
	incapable of being overcome; insuperable

insurmounta'bility

—n

insur'mountableness

—n

insur'mountably

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

insurmountable

1696, from in- "not" + surmountable (see surmount).

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