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

  • '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

  • 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

  • I will not lower her by calling her unconquerable, for she has never been assailed; but I call her ever-victorious.

    Slavery Ordained of God 1839

  • Decade after decade, the unforgettable lines of the poem Invictus, "unconquerable," were on Mandela's lips:

    Nelson Mandela and the Rainbow of Culture 2001

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Invictus: this song has a name that is Latin for 'unconquerable' or 'undefeated'.

    All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com 2010

  • 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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