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insurmountable

adj

Etymology

From in- + surmountable.

  1. derived from sormonter — “to rise above, surmount”
  2. inherited from surmounten
  3. suffixed as surmountable — “surmount + able”
  4. prefixed as insurmountable — “in + surmountable”

Definitions

  1. Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at insurmountable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at insurmountable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at insurmountable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA