Modifying Another Word

• almost: Many of them leave us with almost insuperable restrictions on methods, seasons, or permit availability.

• not: I do not think we can yet say with any assurance whether these difficulties are or are not insuperable.

• seemingly: I have never, from any choir on any occasion, heard such magnificent conquest of the seemingly insuperable difficulties.

Modifies a noun

• obstacle: Whilst for some people this may prove to be an insuperable obstacle, most people can work out ways of reducing the fear.

• objection: To this, however, there are several insuperable objections.

• difficulty: However, insuperable legal difficulties stood in the way of imposing legal restriction.

• barrier: There is no insuperable constitutional barrier to our joining.

• odd: In comes a new MD who faces insuperable odds.

• problem: The dress regulations for women are an insuperable problem for the national women's swimming team.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: We are left with a challenge that may seem insuperable, yet there are many early signs of a change in thinking.

• prove: The technical, or even theoretical, barriers might prove insuperable.

• become: Yet lawyers increasingly fear that the difficulties of rectifying an injustice are becoming almost insuperable.