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unstoppable

UK/ʌnˈstɔ.pə.bəl/US/ʌnˈstɔ.pə.bəl/
adjectiveB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,495 of 15,258leans spoken

Unstoppable means impossible to bring to a halt. An unstoppable force, unstoppable momentum, seemed unstoppable.

It is almost always an exaggeration and almost always said before something is stopped. The unstoppable force meeting the immovable object is a standing paradox, and the answer is that both cannot exist in the same universe.

Definitions of unstoppable

  1. 1adjectiveunstoppableImpossible to bring to a halt.B2

    “Once the fire reached the dry forest, it was unstoppable.”

unstoppable is a quality.

Where it comes from

From un- + stoppable.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

unstoppable in the wild

  • The main initiative Yuva unstoppable is known for making toilets in municipal schools which is the major reason of girls not attending schools after primary education.

    Yuva Unstoppable

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.