unstemmable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ stem +‎ -able

Adjective

unstemmable (not comparable)

  1. That cannot be stemmed; being an unstoppable flood.
    • 2009 September 6, Geoff Pevere, “The human wreckage of the great blow of '54”, in Toronto Star‎:
      Mary takes in a screening of Niagara the day she learns she's carrying Ray's baby, and this is only one of many watery images that flow through the book's roiling currents: Bell's struggle with the lake's waves, the unstemmable surges of illicit passion, the rains that come to carry everything in its path.
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