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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

unangreifbar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: un-an-greif-bar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unassailable/ˌʌn.əˈseɪ.lə.bəl/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Ihre Position im Unternehmen ist derzeit unangreifbar."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Unable to be attacked, questioned, or defeated; impregnable.

    "The defense team built an unassailable case that secured the defendant's full acquittal."
  2. 2

    Free from doubt or flaws; certain and indisputable.

    "She held an unassailable lead in the polls with only two days left until the election."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English prefix un- (not) combined with assailable, which traces back to the Old French assaillir (to assault), ultimately from the Latin adsalire (to leap upon). First emerging in the late 16th century, the word shifted in meaning from physically unconquerable to abstractly immune to attack, criticism, or doubt.

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