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nonacquirable

nonacquirable adjective: not acquirable; unacquirable.

Adjective

nonacquirable (not comparable)

  1. Not acquirable; unacquirable.
    • She therefore concludes that 'there will be aspects of the TL [target language] that will be 'nonacquirable ( 160 ) .2001, Marcel Bax, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart, Reflections on Language and Language Learning, page 249
    • From this version of nature, in which the cold eradication oof useless variations was a necessary part of the striving for perfection, the Nazis dredged up such "natural laws" as the principle that "every action of the human being rests upon inalienable and nonacquirable hereditary characteristics."2007, John Alexander Williams, Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900-1940, page 262

Origin of nonacquirable

From non- + acquirable.

Questions about nonacquirable

What does nonacquirable mean?
Nonacquirable means not acquirable; unacquirable.
What part of speech is nonacquirable?
Nonacquirable is an adjective.

Words near nonacquirable in the dictionary

  1. nonacquaintances
  2. nonacquainted
  3. nonacquiescence
  4. nonacquiescent
  5. nonacquiescing
  6. nonacquirable
  7. nonacquired
  8. nonacquisition
  9. nonacquisitional
  10. nonacquisitive
  11. nonacquisitiveness

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