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inexpugnable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌɪnɪkˈspʌɡnəbəl/
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌɪnɛkˈspʌɡnəbəl/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin inexpugnābilis. Morphologically, from in- + expugn + -able.

Meanings

1. Impossible to eliminate or destroy; impregnable.
   • My one hope of the world, my inexpugnable consolation in looking at the miseries of the world, is that this is altering. 1840, Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship:
   • It crept into one's mind, a distress as vague and inexpugnable as a sea fog on a spring morning, and presently one shivered and wanted to go indoors... 1911, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories:
   • This seemed to be an inexpugnable refuge, where we could live untroubled and learn to know each other." 1915, Joseph Conrad, Victory:
   • For the sake of its own success it must possess a clearly defined doctrine or body of inexpugnable dogma, binding upon its members. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 465:

Forms

Deriveds

inexpugnably · inexpugnability · inexpugnableness

Translations (27)

it inespugnabile (impregnable, unconquerable) · et vallutamatu (impregnable, unconquerable) · bg непристъпен (impregnable, unconquerable) · el απόρθητος (impregnable, unconquerable) · ru неприступный (impregnable, unconquerable) · cmn 不能攻占的 (impregnable, unconquerable) · de uneinnehmbar (impregnable, unconquerable) · gl inexpugnábel (impregnable, unconquerable) · pt inexpugnável (impregnable, unconquerable) · bg непревзимаем (impregnable, unconquerable) · pl niepokonany (impregnable, unconquerable) · sh несавладив (impregnable, unconquerable) · nl oninneembaar (impregnable, unconquerable) · la inexpugnabilis (impregnable, unconquerable) · ca inexpugnable (impregnable, unconquerable) · nl ongenaakbaar (impregnable, unconquerable) · fi valloittamaton (impregnable, unconquerable) · sh неосвојив (impregnable, unconquerable) · es inexpugnable (impregnable, unconquerable) · nl onneembaar (impregnable, unconquerable) · sv ointaglig (impregnable, unconquerable) · cmn 堅不可摧 /坚不可摧 (impregnable, unconquerable) · ar مَنِيع (impregnable, unconquerable) · fi horjumaton (impregnable, unconquerable) · fr inexpugnable (impregnable, unconquerable) · de unbezwinglich (impregnable, unconquerable) · fi järkkymätön (impregnable, unconquerable)