INDOMITABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indomitable mean? 

• INDOMITABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INDOMITABLE has 1 sense:

1. impossible to subdue

  Familiarity information: INDOMITABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDOMITABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impossible to subdue

Synonyms:

indomitable; never-say-die; unsubduable

Similar:

unconquerable (not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome)

Derivation:

indomitability (the property being difficult or impossible to defeat)

 Context examples 

Still indomitable was the reply—"I care for myself.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Life was flowing through him again, splendid and indomitable.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Never mind, my friends," said the indomitable Challenger. "You have still my firm promise of a balloon." Summerlee groaned.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Defiant, indomitable, even harsh to excess, they at the same time aroused pity.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Never had I seen so profound a despair as that which I saw on his face,—the face of Wolf Larsen the fighter, the strong man, the indomitable one.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And it was thought, and is, on the face of it, reasonable, that a struggle between two indomitable men, with thirty thousand to view it and three million to discuss it, did help to set a standard of hardihood and endurance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I went up to my bedroom to change my wet clothes; and the vast extent of that old wainscoted apartment (which was over the archway leading to the Inn, I remember), and the sedate immensity of the four-post bedstead, and the indomitable gravity of the chests of drawers, all seemed to unite in sternly frowning on the fortunes of Traddles, or on any such daring youth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, an indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats—these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind—work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

One result of this was to make White Fang more ferocious and indomitable, and more solitary.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Never, said he, as he ground his teeth, never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)