UNCONQUERABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unconquerable mean? 

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

1. not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome

2. incapable of being surmounted or excelled

  Familiarity information: UNCONQUERABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCONQUERABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome

Context example:

faced unconquerable difficulties

Similar:

impregnable; inexpugnable (incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted)

indomitable; never-say-die; unsubduable (impossible to subdue)

insuperable; insurmountable (impossible to surmount)

invincible; unbeatable; unvanquishable (incapable of being overcome or subdued)

all-victorious (never having lost)

Also:

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

invulnerable (immune to attack; impregnable)

Antonym:

conquerable (subject to being conquered 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 

But unfortunately Demi's most unconquerable prejudice was against going to bed, and that night he decided to go on a rampage.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After surmounting your unconquerable horror of the bed, you will retire to rest, and get a few hours' unquiet slumber.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She could not live any longer in such solitary wretchedness; and she made her way to the Park, through difficulties of walking which she had deemed unconquerable a week before, for the chance of hearing a little in addition, for the sake of at least hearing his name.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Had my mother given me some active profession when I was removed at eighteen from the care of Mr. Pratt, I think—nay, I am sure, it would never have happened; for though I left Longstaple with what I thought, at the time, a most unconquerable preference for his niece, yet had I then had any pursuit, any object to engage my time and keep me at a distance from her for a few months, I should very soon have outgrown the fancied attachment, especially by mixing more with the world, as in such case I must have done.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And without attempting any farther remonstrance, she left Fanny to her fate, a fate which, had not Fanny's heart been guarded in a way unsuspected by Miss Crawford, might have been a little harder than she deserved; for although there doubtless are such unconquerable young ladies of eighteen (or one should not read about them) as are never to be persuaded into love against their judgment by all that talent, manner, attention, and flattery can do, I have no inclination to believe Fanny one of them, or to think that with so much tenderness of disposition, and so much taste as belonged to her, she could have escaped heart-whole from the courtship (though the courtship only of a fortnight) of such a man as Crawford, in spite of there being some previous ill opinion of him to be overcome, had not her affection been engaged elsewhere.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that every one may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)