unassailable
/ˌʌnəˈseɪləbl̩/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "Yet in the number, I do know but One That vnaſſayleable holds on his Ranke, Vnfhak’d of Motion : and that I am he, Let me a little ſhew it, euen in this : That I was conſtant Cymber ſhould be baniſh’d, And conſtant do remaine to keepe him ſo."
- "His recourse to written documents to make his discourse unassailable has created a virtually unalterable situation even as he is on the verge of being forced to “see through” Tartuffe."
- "None of the processes, however, is either uniform or unassailable. The contradictions and distortions within any hegemonic discourse, as well as the discrepancies between it and the popular understandings of common sense, leave it ever vulnerable to penetration, criticism, and refusal."
- "She won the debate with her unassailable logic."
- "So the French National Railways have secured a record which is likely, one imagines, to remain unassailable for a long time to come."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English assailable English unassailable From un- + assailable.