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UK
/ɪnsəmˈaʊntəbəl/
]
[ US /ˌɪnsɝˈmaʊntəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnsɝˈmaʊntəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- impossible to surmount
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not capable of being surmounted or overcome
insurmountable disadvantages
How To Use insurmountable In A Sentence
- Bit like now I suppose, sruggling in the half light trying to overcome an insurmountable problem while some treacly sod is in the background telling you how to go about it without having to demonstrate. You See The Trouble With Me « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- The joys of return and reunion with the homeland thus intermingle with a pervasive and insurmountable feeling of loss.
- It is on this issue and more besides that they still strike insurmountable problems with no valid explanation.
- There is also concern that merging the various agencies may present insurmountable practical difficulties. Times, Sunday Times
- The challenges are not insurmountable, and researchers have done good descriptive work that has advanced knowledge to this point.
- The general drift is still to view an away match as a seemingly insurmountable obstacle. Times, Sunday Times
- But it was in implementing privatization, against odds that could only be called insurmountable, that The Commanding Heights
- The language difference proved an insurmountable barrier .
- The teenage comedy arc is fully intact: geek is a geek, geek becomes popular, geek faces insurmountable odds, geek triumphs.
- The problems are not insurmountable but it takes time and money to get through them. Times, Sunday Times