Insuperable
adjective
Impossible to overcome or solve.
The language barrier seemed insuperable at first.
Often appears as...
- insuperable difficulty
- insuperable barrier
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Impossible to overcome or solve.
The language barrier seemed insuperable at first.
Often appears as...
- insuperable difficulty
- insuperable barrier
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emphasize Difficulty
Use 'insuperable' to stress extreme difficulty, implying it's not just hard but impossible to tackle the problem.
The insuperable challenges of deep space travel fascinate scientists.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
'Insuperable' often describes figurative barriers or problems, not physical ones.
Her fear of public speaking was an insuperable obstacle in her career.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Tone
The word 'insuperable' is formal and serious, suitable for academic or professional contexts.
The committee was faced with an insuperable task, demanding profound contemplation.
Pro Tip 1/3Emphasize Difficulty
Use 'insuperable' to stress extreme difficulty, implying it's not just hard but impossible to tackle the problem.
The insuperable challenges of deep space travel fascinate scientists.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
'Insuperable' often describes figurative barriers or problems, not physical ones.
Her fear of public speaking was an insuperable obstacle in her career.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Tone
The word 'insuperable' is formal and serious, suitable for academic or professional contexts.
The committee was faced with an insuperable task, demanding profound contemplation.
Pro Tip 1/3Emphasize Difficulty
Use 'insuperable' to stress extreme difficulty, implying it's not just hard but impossible to tackle the problem.
The insuperable challenges of deep space travel fascinate scientists.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
'Insuperable' often describes figurative barriers or problems, not physical ones.
Her fear of public speaking was an insuperable obstacle in her career.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Tone
The word 'insuperable' is formal and serious, suitable for academic or professional contexts.
The committee was faced with an insuperable task, demanding profound contemplation.
Compare with
dauntingformidableimpossibleindestructibleinvincibleoverwhelmunbeatableunconquerable
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Karen Armstrong: Let's...
In this room, all this expertise, if we joined it all together, we could change the world. And of course the problems sometimes seem insuperable.
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Karen Armstrong: Let's...
In this room, all this expertise, if we joined it all together, we could change the world. And of course the problems sometimes seem insuperable.
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Sean M. Carroll
American Scientist
Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there's no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die.
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Terry Eagleton
English Critic
There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
English Novelist
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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James Madison
American President
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Manny Farber
American Artist
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.
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Henry Morton Stanley
Welsh Explorer
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
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Richard Rolle
English Writer
The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.
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Lionel Murphy
Australian Politician
There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.
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Ellen Terry
English Actress
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
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Sean M. Carroll
American Scientist
Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there's no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die.
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Terry Eagleton
English Critic
There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
English Novelist
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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James Madison
American President
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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Manny Farber
American Artist
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.
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Henry Morton Stanley
Welsh Explorer
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
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Richard Rolle
English Writer
The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.
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Lionel Murphy
Australian Politician
There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.
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Ellen Terry
English Actress
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
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