unstoppable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ stoppable.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʌnˈstɔ.pə.bəl/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔpəbəl

Adjective

unstoppable (comparative more unstoppable, superlative most unstoppable)

  1. Unable to be stopped.
    Their "greatly unstoppable fight" against the cause was a joke.
    • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
      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.
    • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.
    • 2016, Sia, Chris Braide, “Unstoppable”, in This Is Acting‎[2], performed by Sia:
      I'm so powerful / I don't need batteries to play / I'm so confident / Yeah, I'm unstoppable today
    • 20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech
      When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
    • 2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “SWR unveils £1bn 'Arterios' for the "heart of our network"”, in Rail, pages 26–27:
      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.

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