Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to overcome or defeat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not conquerable; incapable of being vanquished or defeated; not to be overcome in contest: as, an unconquerable foe.
- Incapable of being subdued and brought under control: as, unconquerable passions or temper.
- Synonyms Invincible, indomitable. See
conquer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not conquerable; indomitable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
conquerable ;indomitable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of being surmounted or excelled
- adjective not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome
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Examples
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'Then you believe more in a big army, and in what they call our unconquerable Navy, than in Almighty God?
"The Pomp of Yesterday" Joseph Hocking 1898
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From the ashes of every pyre sprang the Jewish Law in unfading youth -- that indestructible, ineradicable mentality and hope, which opponents are wont to call unconquerable Jewish defiance.
Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878
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I will not lower her by calling her unconquerable, for she has never been assailed; but I call her ever-victorious.
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Decade after decade, the unforgettable lines of the poem Invictus, "unconquerable," were on Mandela's lips:
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Cut off as we are by the nature of the body, God has yet given us, in the midst of all this evil, virtue the unconquerable, meaningless in a state of tranquil safety but everything where its absence would be peril of fall.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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But he was just as much "unconquerable" among them as in the Church.
History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church George Freeman 1922
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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.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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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 1856
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Invictus: this song has a name that is Latin for 'unconquerable' or 'undefeated'.
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Government power, corporate power, military power, so interconnected, a ten-thousand-pound gorilla crouched over us, "unconquerable" force.
unknown title 2009
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