INSUPERABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insuperable mean? 

• INSUPERABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INSUPERABLE has 2 senses:

1. impossible to surmount

2. incapable of being surmounted or excelled

  Familiarity information: INSUPERABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSUPERABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impossible to surmount

Synonyms:

insuperable; insurmountable

Similar:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Incapable of being surmounted or excelled

Synonyms:

insuperable; unconquerable

Context example:

insuperable heroes

Similar:

insurmountable; unsurmountable (not capable of being surmounted or overcome)

 Context examples 

I have not all my facts yet, but I do not think there are any insuperable difficulties.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If I meet with no insuperable difficulties therefore, consider that point as settled.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Am I severed from you by insuperable obstacles?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

'We must persuade Henry to marry her,' said she; 'and what with honour, and the certainty of having shut himself out for ever from Fanny, I do not despair of it. Fanny he must give up. I do not think that even he could now hope to succeed with one of her stamp, and therefore I hope we may find no insuperable difficulty. My influence, which is not small shall all go that way; and when once married, and properly supported by her own family, people of respectability as they are, she may recover her footing in society to a certain degree. In some circles, we know, she would never be admitted, but with good dinners, and large parties, there will always be those who will be glad of her acquaintance; and there is, undoubtedly, more liberality and candour on those points than formerly. What I advise is, that your father be quiet. Do not let him injure his own cause by interference. Persuade him to let things take their course. If by any officious exertions of his, she is induced to leave Henry's protection, there will be much less chance of his marrying her than if she remain with him.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I left the house, the horrid scene of the last night’s contention, and walked on the beach of the sea, which I almost regarded as an insuperable barrier between me and my fellow creatures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Power, government, war, law, punishment, and a thousand other things, had no terms wherein that language could express them, which made the difficulty almost insuperable, to give my master any conception of what I meant.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"I have called it insuperable, and I speak advisedly."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"I am in a condition to prove my allegation: an insuperable impediment to this marriage exists."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Neglect it—go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling—and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Not a hint, however, did she drop about sending me to school: still I felt an instinctive certainty that she would not long endure me under the same roof with her; for her glance, now more than ever, when turned on me, expressed an insuperable and rooted aversion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)