Inexpugnable vs Indomitable - What's the difference?
inexpugnable | indomitable | Synonyms |
Impossible to eliminate or destroy; impregnable.
* {{quote-book, year=1840, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Heroes and Hero Worship, chapter=, edition=
, passage=My one hope of the world, my inexpugnable consolation in looking at the miseries of the world, is that this is altering.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=H. G. Wells, title=The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It crept into one's mind, a distress as vague and inexpugnable as a sea fog on a spring morning, and presently one shivered and wanted to go indoors...}}
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Joseph Conrad, title=Victory, chapter=, edition=
, passage=This seemed to be an inexpugnable refuge, where we could live untroubled and learn to know each other."}}
Incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished.
* 1902 , , The Four Feathers , ch. 1:
* 1910 , , A Shepherd's Life , ch. 7:
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Inexpugnable is a synonym of indomitable.
As adjectives the difference between inexpugnable and indomitable
is that inexpugnable is impossible to eliminate or destroy; impregnable while indomitable is incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished.inexpugnable
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* inexpugnability * inexpugnablyindomitable
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(en adjective)- Personal courage and an indomitable self-confidence were the chief, indeed the only, qualities which sprang to light in General Feversham.
- But he was a youth of indomitable spirit, strong and agile as a wild cat.
When Betty Got Frank," Time , 31 March:
- Nobody came on to the movie camera—wrapped it in a bear hug and wrestled it to submission—like Betty Hutton. They called this 40s singer-actress "the Blitzkrieg blond" . . . . [S]he was indomitable , unstoppable.