insurmountable
adjEtymology From in- + surmountable.
1
Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable
- Getting everybody to agree proved to be an insurmountable difficulty.
- Overcoming Japan’s demographic crisis has proved insurmountable for occupants of the Kantei – the prime minister’s office – long before Kishida moved in last autumn.2023 January 24, Justin McCurry, “Japan PM’s solution to dire birthrate has already been rejected by young”, in The Guardian:
- Derived terms
- insurmountableness, insurmountably