English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
English insurmountable
From in- + surmountable.
Pronunciation
Adjective
insurmountable (comparative more insurmountable, superlative most insurmountable)
- Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable
- Synonym: (archaic and rare) unsurmountable
- Antonym: surmountable
Getting everybody to agree proved to be an insurmountable difficulty.
2023 January 24, Justin McCurry, “Japan PM’s solution to dire birthrate has already been rejected by young”, in The Guardian[1]:Overcoming Japan’s demographic crisis has proved insurmountable for occupants of the Kantei – the prime minister’s office – long before Kishida moved in last autumn.
Derived terms
Translations
incapable of being passed over
- Belarusian: неадо́льны (njeadólʹny), непераадо́льны (njepjeraadólʹny)
- Bulgarian: непреодоли́м (bg) (nepreodolím)
- Catalan: insuperable
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無法克服的 / 无法克服的 (wúfǎ kèfú de)
- Czech: nepřekonatelný (cs)
- Dutch: onoverkomelijk (nl)
- Finnish: ylipääsemätön, ylitsepääsemätön (fi)
- French: insurmontable (fr), infranchissable (fr), impassable (fr)
- German: unüberwindlich (de), unüberwindbar (de)
- Greek: ανυπέρβλητος (el) (anypérvlitos), αξεπέραστος (el) (axepérastos)
- Hungarian: leküzdhetetlen (hu), legyőzhetetlen (hu), áthághatatlan (hu), áthidalhatatlan (hu)
- Irish: dochloíte, dosháraithe
- Latin: inēluctābilis, insuperābilis
- Macedonian: несовладлив (nesovladliv), непремостлив (nepremostliv)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: uoverstigelig
- Nynorsk: uoverstigeleg
- Polish: nieprzezwyciężony (pl), nie do pokonania
- Portuguese: insuperável, inexorável (pt)
- Romanian: insurmontabil (ro)
- Russian: непреодоли́мый (ru) (nepreodolímyj), неодоли́мый (ru) (neodolímyj)
- Slovene: nepremostljiv, nepremagljiv (sl)
- Spanish: insalvable, insuperable, infranqueable (es)
- Swedish: oöverstiglig (sv)
- Turkish: aşılamaz
- Ukrainian: неперебо́рний (neperebórnyj), непобо́рний (nepobórnyj), непобори́мий (nepoborýmyj), незбори́мий (nezborýmyj), незбо́рний (nezbórnyj), нездола́нний (nezdolánnyj), неперемо́жний (neperemóžnyj)
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