单词 | surmountable |
释义 | surmountableadj. That may be surmounted; conquerable, superable. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > feasible > able to be overcome overcomablec1454 vincible?1555 conquerable1599 surmountable1611 surpassable1611 superable1629 facile1667 transcendible1953 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Surmontable, surmountable, surpassable. 1669 W. Temple Let. to Ld. Arlington in Wks. (1720) II. 191 He saw there would be another Difficulty less surmountable than all the rest. 1745 E. Young in S. Richardson Corr. (1804) II. 12 Evils they are, but surmountable ones. a1806 S. Horsley Serm. Luke iv. 18–19 (1816) I. 218 The temptations of all situations are equally surmountable. 1904 W. M. Ramsay Lett. to Seven Churches iv. 49 The difficulties of cultivation are no longer surmountable by a passive and uninventive population. Derivatives surˈmountableness n. ΚΠ 1847 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1611 |
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