insurmountable
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sərˈmaʊn adjective
incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
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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insurmountable (ˌɪnsəˈmaʊntəbəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| incapable of being overcome; insuperable | |
| insurmounta'bility | |
| —n | |
| insur'mountableness | |
| —n | |
| insur'mountably | |
| —adv | |
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Insurmountable
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example sentences
Private income-protection insurance in the event of long-term unemployment may pose insurmountable problems.
Those are technical problems and they are not insurmountable.
Difficulties almost insurmountable were encountered.
But the obstacles have proved insurmountable for all but niche applications, such as medical imaging.
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