Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not capable of being surpassed, excelled, or exceeded.
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- adjective Not
surpassable ; unable to besurpassed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not to be exceeded
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Examples
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Thus the new connotations and conceptualizations put forth by the Fathers revitalized the Church's memory of what the Apostles taught, and historical theology today would enable us to revitalize our memory of what the "unsurpassable" Fathers taught.
Archive 2007-03-01 Mike L 2007
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Thus the new connotations and conceptualizations put forth by the Fathers revitalized the Church's memory of what the Apostles taught, and historical theology today would enable us to revitalize our memory of what the "unsurpassable" Fathers taught.
Development of doctrine, Fr. Louth, and ecumenism Mike L 2007
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Now, this joke almost textually reproduces a circumstance attending the birth of that Earl of Dudley of whom Rogers wrote the epigram which Byron thought "unsurpassable": --
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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Breakfast with its "unsurpassable" coffee was hardly over before a guide and carriage arrived to lend us their services for the day in a drive to Versailles.
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With a clean interior that exudes a pure ambient feel, the overall theme of the 181 sqm residence is a mixture of modernism as well as an unsurpassable natural ambient.
Kouichi Kimura Architects Stun With Black-White Contrast 2009
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He rejects end-points of all kinds, whether a "theory of everything" that answers every scientific riddle, a work of art so exquisite that it cannot be surpassed or even the Buddhist version of Enlightenment, a state of unsurpassable spiritual grace.
To Err Is Progress John Horgan 2011
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In more recent years, Napoleon—impersonated by Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Herbert Lom, Woody Allen and others—has featured in a number of more or less colossal productions, none unsurpassable.
How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo Frederic Raphael 2011
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Many say that Mao's wisdom was unsurpassable, but it is more accurate to say that few can attain his level of callousness.
Judging Mao as a Man Mao Yushi 2011
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We see this same science fiction morality play told yet again in 2010: The Year We Made Contact, the film that could never be as great as the unsurpassable 2001: A Space Odyssey, but which remains one of the best realistic science fiction films yet made.
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Set entirely in a wooden box several feet underground in an Iraqi desert, it takes compressionism to an unsurpassable extreme.
Buried Philip French 2010
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