Insurmountable
adjective
If something is insurmountable, it is so large or intense that it cannot be overcome or defeated.
The team faced insurmountable odds to win the championship
Often appears as...
- insurmountable difficulties
- insurmountable odds
adjective
If something is insurmountable, it is so large or intense that it cannot be overcome or defeated.
The team faced insurmountable odds to win the championship
Often appears as...
- insurmountable difficulties
- insurmountable odds
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Scale
Use 'insurmountable' for challenges that seem impossible to conquer, showing the highest difficulty level.
Climbing Mount Everest alone is an insurmountable task for most people.
Pro Tip 2/3Context Flexibility
'Insurmountable' fits physical and abstract contexts, like a high mountain or a strong fear.
After the scandal, his reputation faced insurmountable damage.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
'Insurmountable' implies a sense of hopelessness or despair when facing a barrier or obstacle.
Her grief felt insurmountable in the early days of mourning.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Scale
Use 'insurmountable' for challenges that seem impossible to conquer, showing the highest difficulty level.
Climbing Mount Everest alone is an insurmountable task for most people.
Pro Tip 2/3Context Flexibility
'Insurmountable' fits physical and abstract contexts, like a high mountain or a strong fear.
After the scandal, his reputation faced insurmountable damage.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
'Insurmountable' implies a sense of hopelessness or despair when facing a barrier or obstacle.
Her grief felt insurmountable in the early days of mourning.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity Scale
Use 'insurmountable' for challenges that seem impossible to conquer, showing the highest difficulty level.
Climbing Mount Everest alone is an insurmountable task for most people.
Pro Tip 2/3Context Flexibility
'Insurmountable' fits physical and abstract contexts, like a high mountain or a strong fear.
After the scandal, his reputation faced insurmountable damage.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
'Insurmountable' implies a sense of hopelessness or despair when facing a barrier or obstacle.
Her grief felt insurmountable in the early days of mourning.
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who stood up and said, "This is our state, too." Those are successes that tell me how I can get it done. But they also let me understand the obstacles aren't insurmountable. They're just a little high. But I also understand that there are three things that always hold us hostage.
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encourage them, gently, to seek out some of these options. You might even offer to help with specific tasks, like looking up therapists in the area, or making a list of questions to ask a doctor. To someone with depression, these first steps can seem insurmountable.
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Your life will always be filled with stressful situations. But what matters to your brain and entire body is how you respond to that stress. If you can view those situations as challenges you can control and master, rather than as threats that are insurmountable,
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know the concerns safety waste and cost but after overcoming my own assumptions about them I've learned these issues are not as insurmountable as most people think plus dozens of promising new advanced
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