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/ʌnkˈɒnkəɹəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome
faced unconquerable difficulties
a tribute to his courage...and his unconquerable will -
incapable of being surmounted or excelled
insuperable heroes
insuperable odds
How To Use unconquerable In A Sentence
- This strength, this invincibility, this unconquerable identification caused the Prudential Insurance Company in 1896 to use the Rock as their brand to symbolize a defense from all obstacles.
- When it comes to free trade, as Adam Smith once opined, ‘Not only the prejudices of the public, but what is much more unconquerable, the private interests of many individuals, irresistibly oppose it.’
- He has arrived with his virtually unconquerable army and besieged Jerusalem.
- faced unconquerable difficulties
- And as fires kindled dispersedly in a dry forest and rustling laurel-thickets, or foaming rivers where they leap swift and loud from high hills, and speed to sea each in his own path of havoc; as fiercely the two, Aeneas and Turnus, dash amid the battle; now, now wrath surges within them, and unconquerable hearts are torn; now in all their might they rush upon wounds. The Aeneid of Virgil
- His youthful studies, which I have said before were pursued with unconquerable energy, embraced grammar, poetry, rhetoric, history, and the exposition of the Holy Scriptures; the Bible, indeed, he read unceasingly, and drew from it much of the vital truth with which it is inspired; but he perhaps too much tainted it with traditional interpretation and patristical logic. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
- Worse even than this, the "unconquerable," though not conquered, had been checked, and that, too, not in a corner, as in Spain or at Eylau, but in the sight of all Europe, on a field chosen by himself. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
- This unconquerableness but fanned Leclère's wrath and stirred him to greater deviltries. BÂTARD
- But though Himself in His sinless nature "unconquerable" by temptation -- immutably secure from the world's malignant influences, it is all worthy of note, as an example to us, that He never unnecessarily braved these. The Mind of Jesus
- Until the Germans collapsed, they seemed unconquerable; but so was Clemenceau.