Meaning & use
surmountable
Able to be overcome or dealt with successfully, despite being difficult.
See it in a sentence
The engineers viewed the design flaw as surmountable with a bit more testing.
Her disability presented challenges, but she always found them surmountable.
A note on using this word
Surmountable is far less common than its opposite, insurmountable, and usually appears when contrasting a problem with a bigger one.
Words with a similar meaning
manageableconquerable
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Words with an opposite meaning
insurmountable
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