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unbeatable

adjectiveB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,218 of 15,258leans spoken

Unbeatable means so good that nothing can better it. An unbeatable price, an unbeatable team, unbeatable value.

In advertising it is a claim about price and is usually hedged in small print, since nothing is literally unbeatable for long. Of a team it means unbeaten in practice rather than in principle, and every unbeatable side eventually loses.

Definitions of unbeatable

  1. 1adjectiveunbeatableSo good that nothing can better it.B2

    “For fresh fish, that little café by the harbour is unbeatable.”

unbeatable is a quality.

Where it comes from

Un- plus beatable, from beat, from Old English beatan, to strike.

  1. Middle English

    beten

  2. English

    beat

  3. English, today

    unbeatable

From un- + beat + -able. beatable is a back-formation. beat comes from Middle English beten. Middle English beten, from Old English bēatan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”), from Proto-West Germanic bautan, from Proto-Germanic bautaną (“to push, strike”). 2

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

unbeatable in the wild

  • In biology, the idea of an unbeatable strategy was proposed by W.D.

    Unbeatable strategy

  • Hamilton did not explicitly define the term "unbeatable strategy" or apply the concept beyond the evolution of sex-ratios, but the idea was very influential.

    Unbeatable strategy

  • The 1975 season of the Soviet Top League proved that Dynamo Kyiv was at the moment unbeatable for other Soviet clubs.

    1975 Soviet Top League

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • beat
  • upbeat