unstoppable
adjectiveattested in dialogue
- //ʌnˈstɔ.pə.bəl//
Unable to be stopped.
adjective
- 1
Unable to be stopped.
Their "greatly unstoppable fight" against the cause was a joke.
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.
However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.
I'm so powerful / I don't need batteries to play / I'm so confident / Yeah, I'm unstoppable today
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 stop Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English stoppable English unstoppable From un- + stoppable.
Forms
- comparative
- more unstoppable
- superlative
- most unstoppable