Insurmountable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Insurmountable \In`sur*mount"a*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not +
     surmountable: cf. F. insurmountable.]
     Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome;
     insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.
     --Locke.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Hope thinks nothing difficult; despair tells us that
           difficulty is insurmountable.            --I. Watts.
  
     Syn: Insuperable; impassable; invincible.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  insurmountable
       adj 1: not capable of being surmounted or overcome; "insurmountable
              disadvantages" [syn: {unsurmountable}] [ant: {surmountable}]
       2: impossible to surmount [syn: {insuperable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "insurmountable":
     beyond one, impassable, impracticable, impractical, indomitable,
     inoperable, insuperable, invincible, too much for, unachievable,
     unattainable, uncompassable, unconquerable, undoable, uneffectible,
     unnegotiable, unperformable, unrealizable, unsurmountable,
     unworkable