surmountable

Adjective

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Adjective (2)

  1. capable of being surmounted or overcome“situations of measurable and surmountable danger”Opposite insurmountableSimilar conquerable, superableSee also conquerable
  2. capable of being ascendedSynonyms: ascendableascendibleclimbableOpposite unclimbableSimilar scalable
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Sur·mount′a·ble adjective

Origin: Cf. F. surmontable.

Capable of being surmounted or overcome; superable. — Sur·mount′wb-a1′>′a·ble·ness, noun

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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