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单词 unattackable
释义 unaˈttackable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
1. Not liable or open to assault.
1805Ld. Grenville in Dk. Buckingham Mem. Geo. III, (1855) III. 457, I am confident that Toulon is absolutely unattackable with such a force as you speak of.1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xiii. xii. (1872) V. 122 Height which he judged unattackable, and on the side of which he pitches his camp accordingly.
2. Not susceptible to the effects of detrimental or dissolvent agencies.
1881Nature XXIV. 249/1 The oxides formed on the surface may preserve it by their very presence, furnishing a sort of unattackable varnish.1882U.S. Rep. Prec. Met. 649 To make some of the particles of gold wholly unattackable by mercury.
Hence unaˈttackably adv.
1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. xiii. (1872) VIII. 56 So unattackably strong was this position at Klein Kamin.
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