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Surmountable

adjective
1.
Capable of being surmounted or overcome.
2.
Capable of being surmounted.  Synonym: climbable.






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"Surmountable" Quotes from Famous Books



... fear shot through her. Nine valleys in every ten, she knew, ended in surmountable divides; and she knew, also, that one valley in every ten did not. Suppose this one that she had chosen at random terminated in a cul-de-sac? The way became steeper. Running was out of the question, and her horse was forging upward in a curious scrambling walk. A noise of clattering ...
— The Gold Girl • James B. Hendryx

... necessary and salutary exercise of our humility may be involved in their reception; others, if not purely (which seems not probable) yet partly for the sake of exercising and training that humility, as an essential part of the education of a child; others, surmountable, indeed, in the progress of knowledge and by prolonged effort of the human intellect, may be designed to stimulate that intellect to strenuous action and healthy effort—as well as to supply, in their solution, as time rolls on, an ever-accumulating mass of proofs of the profundity of the wisdom ...
— Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts • Henry Rogers



Words linked to "Surmountable" :   passable, superable, insurmountable, conquerable



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