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Unsurmountable

Definition: Unsurmountable

Unsurmountable

Adjective

1. Not capable of being surmounted or overcome; "insurmountable disadvantages".

2. Impossible to surmount or climb.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unsurmountable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)


Synonyms: Unsurmountable

Synonyms: insurmountable (adj), unclimbable (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: surmountable (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unsurmountable

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Impossibility

Impracticable unachievable; unfeasible, infeasible; insuperable; unsurmountable, insurmountable; unattainable, unobtainable; out of reach, out of the question; not to be had, not to be thought of; beyond control; desperate; (hopeless); incompatible; inaccessible, uncomeatable, impassable, impervious, innavigable, inextricable; self-contradictory.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Unsurmountable

"Unsurmountable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsurmountable" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unsurmountable

Language Translations for "unsurmountable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

infranchissable. (various references)

   

German

  

unüberwindlich (immovable, impregnable, impregnably, inexpugnably, insuperable, insuperably, insurmountable, invincible, invincibly, unconquerable, unconquerably). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urmountableunsay

   

Spanish

  

invencible (insuperably, invincible). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

aşılmaz (insuperable, insurmountable, unsurpassable). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không thể vượt qua được (impassable, uncrossable, untraversable), không thể khắc phục được. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Unsurmountable"

Words rhyming with "unsurmountable" (pronounced 'Un`sur*mount"a*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Unsurmountable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-m-n-n-o-r-s-t-u-u-u"

-2 letters: surmountable.

-4 letters: lobsterman, outnumbers.

-5 letters: absoluter, alburnums, bannerols, butanones, emulators, laburnums, marlstone, menstrual, mestranol, mountable, nonmetals, ornaments, outlearns, outnumber, runabouts, subaltern, subnormal, tremulous, tubulures, unstabler.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unsurmountable


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 73 75 72 6D 6F 75 6E 74 61 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ...    ..-    .-.    --    ---    ..-    -.    -    .-    -...    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110011 01110101 01110010 01101101 01101111 01110101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#117 &#114 &#109 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#116 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0075 0072 006D 006F 0075 006E 0074 0061 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5580858784798187808667687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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