insuperably

Examples

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• Many students find advanced calculus insuperably difficult.

• The way to grasp the point of items in this category, in short, is not to think about the small minority of students who find them embarrassingly easy, but about the hundreds of thousands who find them insuperably difficult.

  Academic text (1999)

• Despite his efforts, he felt insuperably overwhelmed by the workload.

Synonyms

I

impossibly

vsinsuperably

31 5.7

To a very great degree that seems like it cannot be true

refers to inability to be overcome, not to improbability or disbelief

I

insurmountably

vsinsuperably

1 8.8

In a way that cannot be overcome

emphasizes inability to be surmounted rather than just dealt with

I

invincibly

vsinsuperably

1 8.1

In a way that cannot be beaten

applies more broadly to any barrier, not only defeat in contests

U

unconquerably

vsinsuperably

8.9

In a way that cannot be defeated

focuses on being impossible to get past rather than on control

I

impregnably

vsinsuperably

9.9

In a way that no one can defeat or capture

is about being impossible to overcome generally, not only fortification

How Difficult

insuperably

• Formal

9.9

arduously

1 7.8

easily

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology