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incompensable

incompensable adjective: not compensable.

Adjective

incompensable (comparative more incompensable, superlative most incompensable)

  1. Not compensable.
    • Incompenſable, (lat[in]) uncapable of being recompenced.[1658, Edward Phillips, compiler, “Incompensable”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], →OCLC, column 1
    • In nothing, perhaps, is this tendency of ancient criticism better shown than in its attitude to the question of Faultlessness. Of course, on this question there were two parties, with many subdivisions in each. There were the extreme classics of that classic time, the wooden persons of whom Martial...1900, George Saintsbury, “‘Faultlessness’”, in A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day […], volume I (Classical and Mediæval Criticism), New...

Synonyms of incompensable

Antonyms

Forms of incompensable

comparativemore incompensable
superlativemost incompensable

Origin of incompensable

From in- + compensable.

Questions about incompensable

What does incompensable mean?
Incompensable means not compensable.
What part of speech is incompensable?
Incompensable is an adjective.

Words near incompensable in the dictionary

  1. incompatible with life
  2. incompatibleness
  3. incompatibles
  4. incompatibly
  5. incompendious
  6. incompensable
  7. incompensated
  8. incompetence
  9. incompetences
  10. incompetencies
  11. incompetency

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