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insormontabile

insurmountable

adjective een-sor-mon-TAH-bee-leh Rare
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Usage Note

Insormontabile describes an obstacle so great it cannot be overcome — un ostacolo insormontabile is a stock collocation. It is an invariable-ending adjective (same form for masculine and feminine). The near-synonym insuperabile can sometimes replace it but also means 'unsurpassable' in quality; insormontabile is more narrowly 'impossible to surmount.'

Examples

"Le difficoltà sembrano insormontabili."

Natural Translation

The difficulties seem insurmountable.

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