Antonyms for unconquerableun·con·quer·able

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1. unconquerable

   The headstrong person is not to be stopped in his own course of action, while the obstinate and stubborn is not to be driven to another's way. The headstrong act; the obstinate and stubborn may simply refuse to stir. The most amiable person may be obstinate on some one point; the stubborn person is for the most part habitually so; we speak of obstinate determination, stubborn resistance. Stubborn is the term most frequently applied to the lower animals and inanimate things. Refractory implies more activity of resistance; the stubborn horse balks; the refractory animal plunges, rears, and kicks; metals that resist ordinary processes of reduction are termed refractory. One is obdurate who adheres to his purpose in spite of appeals that would move any tender-hearted or right-minded person. Contumacious refers to a proud and insolent defiance of authority, as of the summons of a court. Pertinacious demand is contrasted with obstinate refusal. The unyielding conduct which we approve we call decided, firm, inflexible, resolute; that which we condemn we are apt to term headstrong, obstinate, stubborn. Compare PERVERSE.

   Antonyms:
   amenable, complaisant, compliant, docile, dutiful, gentle, irresolute, obedient, pliable, pliant, submissive, teachable, tractable, undecided, wavering, yielding

   Synonyms:
   contumacious, decided, determined, dogged, firm, fixed, headstrong, heady, immovable, indomitable, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, persistent, pertinacious, refractory, resolute, resolved, stubborn, unflinching, unyielding

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1. unconquerableadjective

   not capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome

   "a tribute to his courage...and his unconquerable will"- R.E.Danielson; "faced unconquerable difficulties"

   Antonyms:
   vanquishable, surmountable, subduable, subjugable, beatable, conquerable, vincible

   Synonyms:
   insuperable

2. insuperable, unconquerableadjective

   incapable of being surmounted or excelled

   "insuperable odds"; "insuperable heroes"

   Antonyms:
   conquerable, vanquishable, vincible, surmountable, beatable, subjugable, subduable

   Synonyms:
   insuperable, insurmountable

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1. unconquerableadjective

   Synonyms:
   invincible, insuperable, impregnable, indomitable, inexpugnable

How to use unconquerable in a sentence?

1. Dossie Easton:

   Sexual jealousy is supposed to be somehow unconquerable and immovable, but that is a myth. It's really serious emotional work to unlearn jealousy and cultivate other ways to feel secure in a relationship, but it's possible. I've been doing it in my practice for the past 20 years and in my own life since 1969.

2. Vicente Lim:

   If we desire the respect of other nations, we must show them that we are exerting all efforts to build a nation not only strong in arms but unconquerable in spirit. An indomitable will to fight & an unflinching resolution to defend at all costs life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness are the fundamental characteristics of any nation that deserves to survive.

3. James Stewart:

   It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not those who are actually in the arena and who know suffering from the inside. Indeed, the fact is that it is the world's greatest sufferers who have produced the most shining examples of unconquerable faith.

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