unsurmountable

1. 1.

   not capable of being surmounted or overcome

   “insurmountable disadvantages”

   Synonymsinsurmountable

   Similarinsuperable
2. 2.

   incapable of being surmounted or climbed

   Synonymsunclimbable

   Similarimpassable

Questions about unsurmountable

What does unsurmountable mean?

unsurmountable means "not capable of being surmounted or overcome". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unsurmountable?

unsurmountable has 5 syllables: un-sur-moun-ta-ble. The stress falls on "moun".

What is another word for unsurmountable?

Close synonyms include insurmountable, unclimbable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unsurmountable a common word?

unsurmountable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.