insuperable
/ɪnˈsuːp(ə)rəb(ə)l
/adjective
(Of a difficulty or obstacle) impossible to overcome: insuperable financial problems...
- This is the radical uncertainty that haunts contemporary Marxist theorists, the insuperable difficulty of impossible exchange.
- Self-transcendence is overcoming insuperable obstacles in one's path.
- But the more I think about it, the more it appears that there are no insuperable obstacles to such a development should it ever become democratically necessary.
Synonyms
insurmountable, unconquerable, invincible, unassailable;
overwhelming, hopeless, impossible
Derivatives
insuperability
/ noun ...- The next logical step is to say that, given the insuperability of the subjective viewpoint, we can describe no independent natural or divine life that human life efficiently serves.
insuperably
/ adverb ...- Cladding and glazing this complex shape was also something that would have been almost insuperably difficult before the arrival of the computer-generated special shape.
Origin
Middle English (in the general sense 'invincible'): from Old French, or from Latin insuperabilis, from in- 'not' + superabilis (from superare 'overcome').
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