Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being surmounted or overcome; conquerable; superable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being surmounted or overcome; superable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing something that can be
overcome ,defeatable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being surmounted or overcome
- adjective capable of being surmounted
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Examples
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I think that all of these are surmountable if you have the time and energy.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » David’s Second Review Forum 2009
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We have problems that I think are surmountable, but we have to get the basic three right, and they all involve a lot of different pieces.
Hermene Hartman: N'Digo Exclusive: Mayor-Elect Rahm Emanuel Hermene Hartman 2011
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The weather was ideal, the city skyline was picturesque and each Seattle hill I encountered was surmountable.
Teeny Lamothe: Biking for Blackberries Teeny Lamothe 2012
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The weather was ideal, the city skyline was picturesque and each Seattle hill I encountered was surmountable.
Teeny Lamothe: Biking for Blackberries Teeny Lamothe 2012
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The weather was ideal, the city skyline was picturesque and each Seattle hill I encountered was surmountable.
Teeny Lamothe: Biking for Blackberries Teeny Lamothe 2012
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The weather was ideal, the city skyline was picturesque and each Seattle hill I encountered was surmountable.
Teeny Lamothe: Biking for Blackberries Teeny Lamothe 2012
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The worst depredations upon the environment, give or take a few, have all been inflicted in the last twenty-five years -- the duration in which markets have gotten freer in the U.S., and the population explosion globally has been regarded a surmountable triviality.
Environmentalist Forecasting Model, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I think all these obstacles are surmountable but we have to start by recognizing they exist and not pretend we can move to a new system at no cost at all.
Comment of the Week, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The weather was ideal, the city skyline was picturesque and each Seattle hill I encountered was surmountable.
Teeny Lamothe: Biking for Blackberries Teeny Lamothe 2012
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The weather was ideal, the city skyline was picturesque and each Seattle hill I encountered was surmountable.
Teeny Lamothe: Biking for Blackberries Teeny Lamothe 2012
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