Definition of Insuperable

1. Adjective. Impossible to surmount.

Exact synonyms: Insurmountable
Similar to: Unconquerable

2. Adjective. Incapable of being surmounted or excelled. "Insuperable heroes"
Exact synonyms: Unconquerable
Similar to: Insurmountable, Unsurmountable

Definition of Insuperable

1. a. Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.

Definition of Insuperable

1. Adjective. Impossible to achieve or overcome or be negotiated. ¹

2. Adjective. Overwhelming or insurmountable. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Insuperable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Insuperable

insultations
insulted
insulter
insulters
insulteth
insulting
insultingly
insultingness
insultive
insultment
insultments
insults
insulysin
insuperabilities
insuperability
insuperable (current term)
insuperableness
insuperably
insupportable
insupportableness
insupportably
insupposable
insuppressible
insuppressive
insurabilities
insurability
insurable
insurable interest
insurably
insurance

Literary usage of Insuperable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"Difficulties In Discovering the Ultimate Issue Great but not insuperable. The difficulties in the way of this discovery, though great, are not insuperable. ..."

2. The American Rural School, Its Characteristics, Its Future and Its Problems by Harold Waldstein Foght (1910)
"Objections to this Agricultural Trend not insuperable. ... Such objections, while in part well taken, are not insuperable; and, if all the facts were told, ..."

3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"The pecuniary difficulties not insuperable, 359 — Sec. 5. The situation in the United States as to accidents long chaotic; the need of reform. ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"As these difficulties arise from the nature of the subject, they oppress, with the same insuperable weight, the philosophic and the theological disputant ..."

5. The Bookman (1915)
"is no other adjective so fitting to describe a feeling that afforded you a sense of strong shelter and insuperable peace. There were times, too, ..."

6. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1847)
"... have been among the great and insuperable difficulties, which I have met with, and have contributed not a little to my embarrassments this campaign. ..."

7. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"... United States have sustained by the enemy will be considered by thc several States as an insuperable bar to their making restitution or indemnification ..."

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