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.

   • 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.

Antonyms

• stoppable

Derived terms

• unstoppability
• unstoppably

Translations

unable to be stopped

• Catalan: imparable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 止不住 (zhǐbuzhù), 阻止不了 (zǔzhǐbuliǎo), 不可阻擋／不可阻挡 (bùkězǔdǎng), 無法停止的／无法停止的 (wúfǎ tíngzhǐ de), 無法阻礙的／无法阻碍的 (wúfǎ zǔài de), 不可擋的／不可挡的, 不可挡的 (bùkě dǎng de)

• Czech: nezastavitelný
• Danish: ustoppelig
• Finnish: pysäyttämätön (fi)
• French: inarrêtable (fr), incoercible (fr), imparable (fr)
• German: unaufhaltbar (de), unaufhaltsam (de)
• Greek: ασταμάτητος (el) (astamátitos), ακατανίκητος (el) (akataníkitos), αστήρικτος (el) (astíriktos), αδυσώπητος (el) (adysópitos)
• Hungarian: megállíthatatlan (hu)
• Italian: inarrestabile (it)
• Japanese: 止められない (ja) (tomerarenai), 止め処ない (tomedonai)
• Polish: niepowstrzymany (pl)
• Portuguese: irrefreável, imparável
• Romanian: de neoprit, neopribil m or n, de nestopat, nestopabil m or n
• Russian: неостановимый (ru) (neostanovimyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: незауста̀вљив

  Roman: nezaustàvljiv (sh)

• Spanish: imparable (es), irrefrenable
• Swedish: ostoppbar
• Telugu: ఆపలేని (āpalēni)
• Turkish: durdurulamaz (tr)