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inserviceable

inserviceable is the alternative form of unserviceable.

Meaning of unserviceable

Adjective

unserviceable (not comparable)

  1. Unusable; of no use.
    • And that which was most to our disaduantage, the one halfe part of the men of euerie shippe sicke, and vtterly vnseruiceable.1591, Walter Raleigh, A Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of Açores, this last Sommer betwixt the Reuenge, one of her Maiesties Shippes, and an Armada of the King of Spaine, London...
    Synonyms:
    u/s
  2. Of machinery, etc.: not working.
    • During 1936, revealed Pravda, the Gorky plant set itself the task of turning out 12,000 cars. The actual output was 2,500. In one day 24 of 47 cars turned out were tagged “unserviceable.”1937 January 25, “Hornlessness”, in Time
  3. Impractical.

Origin of inserviceable

From in- + serviceable.

Questions about inserviceable

What is inserviceable the alternative form of?
Inserviceable is the alternative form of unserviceable.

Words near inserviceable in the dictionary

  1. inserts
  2. inserve
  3. inserved
  4. inserves
  5. inservice
  6. inserviceable
  7. inservices
  8. inservient
  9. inserving
  10. insession
  11. insessions

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