unstoppable

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/ʌnˈstɔ.pə.bəl/

adjective

Unable to be stopped.

“Their "greatly unstoppable fight" against the cause was a joke.”

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Less commonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveunstoppable (comparative more unstoppable, superlative most unstoppable)

comparative more unstoppable · superlative most unstoppable

  1. Unable to be stopped.

    Their "greatly unstoppable fight" against the cause was a joke.

    5 more examples

    In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate.

    1958 February 28, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88

    However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.

    2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2025

    I'm so powerful / I don't need batteries to play / I'm so confident / Yeah, I'm unstoppable today

    2016, Sia, Chris Braide, “Unstoppable”, in This Is Acting, performed by Sia

    20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.

    These trains were ordered years before the pandemic, commissioned to tackle a problem that has (for now) gone away. Passenger numbers are no longer increasing at an unstoppable rate, driven by rising central London employment. The extra capacity is not currently needed.

    2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “SWR unveils £1bn 'Arterios' for the "heart of our network"”, in Rail, pages 26–27

Synonyms & antonyms

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adjectivenot capable of being stopped

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Proto-West Germanic*stoppōn
  9. Old Englishstoppian
  10. Middle Englishstoppen
  11. Englishstop
  12. Englishstoppable
  13. Englishunstoppable

From un- + stoppable.

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Translations

Catalan imparable
  • imparableunable to be stopped
Chinese Mandarin 止不住, 阻止不了
  • 止不住 (zhǐbuzhù)unable to be stopped
  • 阻止不了 (zǔzhǐbuliǎo)unable to be stopped
  • 不可阻擋 /不可阻挡 (bùkězǔdǎng)unable to be stopped
  • 無法停止的 /无法停止的 (wúfǎ tíngzhǐ de)unable to be stopped
  • 無法阻礙的 /无法阻碍的 (wúfǎ zǔài de)unable to be stopped
  • 不可擋的 /不可挡的unable to be stopped
  • 不可挡的 (bùkě dǎng de)unable to be stopped
Czech nezastavitelný
  • nezastavitelnýunable to be stopped
Danish ustoppelig
  • ustoppeligunable to be stopped
Finnish pysäyttämätön
  • pysäyttämätönunable to be stopped
French inarrêtable, incoercible
  • inarrêtableunable to be stopped
  • incoercibleunable to be stopped
  • imparableunable to be stopped
German unaufhaltbar, unaufhaltsam
  • unaufhaltbarunable to be stopped
  • unaufhaltsamunable to be stopped
Greek ασταμάτητος, ακατανίκητος
  • ασταμάτητος (astamátitos)unable to be stopped
  • ακατανίκητος (akataníkitos)unable to be stopped
  • αστήρικτος (astíriktos)unable to be stopped
  • αδυσώπητος (adysópitos)unable to be stopped
Hungarian megállíthatatlan
  • megállíthatatlanunable to be stopped
Indonesian tak terhentikan
  • tak terhentikanunable to be stopped
Italian inarrestabile
  • inarrestabileunable to be stopped
Japanese 止められない, 止め処ない
  • 止められない (tomerarenai)unable to be stopped
  • 止め処ない (tomedonai)unable to be stopped
Polish niepowstrzymany
  • niepowstrzymanyunable to be stopped
Portuguese irrefreável, imparável
  • irrefreávelunable to be stopped
  • imparávelunable to be stopped
Romanian de neoprit, neopribil
  • de neopritunable to be stopped
  • neopribilunable to be stopped
  • de nestopatunable to be stopped
  • nestopabilunable to be stopped
Russian неостановимый
  • неостановимый (neostanovimyj)unable to be stopped
Spanish imparable, irrefrenable
  • imparableunable to be stopped
  • irrefrenableunable to be stopped
Swedish ostoppbar
  • ostoppbarunable to be stopped
Turkish durdurulamaz
  • durdurulamazunable to be stopped
Cite this entry
APA

unstoppable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unstoppable

MLA

“unstoppable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unstoppable. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unstoppable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unstoppable.

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