unsubmersible

Adjective

unsubmersible (not comparable)

1. Not submersible.
   • The car will be prepared for all emergencies by making it unsubmersible and furnishing it with runners for use as a sledge.1890 December 20, “To the North in a Balloon”, in Scientific American, volume 63, page 392
   • The last problem with dikes was that dike failure was seldom included in waring plans, primarilty because they often are believed unsubmersible by riverside dwellers.2008, David G. Proverbs, C. A. Brebbia, Edmund Charles Penning-Rowsell, Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response, page 115
2. Buoyant and resilient; unquashable.
   • It is conceivable that there might be in man a virtue as strong and buoyant, as unconquerable and unsubmersible, as the physical characteristics of his race, like them remaining insistently dominant through all the ages.1914, Katherine Clemmons Gould, The crystal rood, page 7
   • "He is unsubmersible." And he adds: "He believes in his wife, his belief is unshakable."1980, Stuart Schneiderman, How Lacan's Ideas Are Used in Clinical Practice, page 51