Meanings
- not comparableNot conquerable; indomitable.
Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, pages 282–2831 more example
In computing, the unconquerable trilemma is embodied in the well-known CAP theorem for distributed systems, also called Brewer’s CAP theorem. This states that any distributed database can only attain two of three guarantees: consistency, availability and partition tolerance.
2023 June 2, Charles Xie, “Trilemma Trade-Offs: A New CAP Theorem For Vector Databases Has Emerged”, Forbes Technology Council, in Forbes, Forbes Media, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2023Synonyms: inconquerable
plural unconquerables
- Someone or something that cannot be conquered.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot conquerable; indomitable.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot capable of being conquered or vanquished or overcome
adjectiveincapable of being surmounted or excelled
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishconquer
- Englishconquerable
- Englishunconquerable
From un- + conquerable. Piecewise doublet of inconquerable.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἀκαταγώιστος
- ἀκαταγώιστος (akatagṓistos)not conquerable
Catalan inconquerible, inconquistable
- inconqueriblenot conquerable
- inconquistablenot conquerable
Esperanto nekonkerebla
- nekonkereblanot conquerable
French imprenable
- imprenablenot conquerable
Greek ακαταμάχητος
- ακαταμάχητος (akatamáchitos)not conquerable
Hindi अजय
- अजय (ajay)not conquerable
Hungarian legyőzhetetlen
- legyőzhetetlennot conquerable
Irish dochloíte, doleigheasta
- dochloítenot conquerable
- doleigheastanot conquerable
- dosháraithenot conquerable
- doshásaithenot conquerable
Latin impenetrabilis
- impenetrabilisnot conquerable
Spanish inconquistable
- inconquistablenot conquerable
Cite this entry
unconquerable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unconquerable
“unconquerable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unconquerable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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