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un-unravelable

un-unravelable adjective: that cannot be unravelled; (by extension) difficult to understand.

Adjective

un-unravelable (comparative more un-unravelable, superlative most un-unravelable)

  1. (rare) That cannot be unravelled; (by extension) difficult to understand.
    • Indeed, most moderns who know Luria's work only from secondary sources would be completely flummoxed to encounter the texts themselves with their endlessly arcane numerology, almost indescribably peculiar eroticism and byzantine, almost un-unravelable mythology.2000, Martin Samuel Cohen, book review, Conservative Judaism, Volume 53, Number 1, Fall 2000, page 92
    • Sheldon Cooper: Well, first of all, your lie was laughably transparent, where mine is exquisitely convoluted. While you were sleeping, I was weaving an un-unravelable web.2009, Bill Prady and Lee Aronsohn, "The Loobenfeld Decay", episode 1-10 of The Big Bang Theory, 00:08:25-00:08:35
    Antonyms:
    unravelable

Synonyms of un-unravelable

Antonyms

Forms of un-unravelable

comparativemore un-unravelable
superlativemost un-unravelable

Origin of un-unravelable

From un- + unravelable.

Questions about un-unravelable

What does un-unravelable mean?
Un-unravelable means that cannot be unravelled; (by extension) difficult to understand.
What part of speech is un-unravelable?
Un-unravelable is an adjective.

Words near un-unravelable in the dictionary

  1. un-timing
  2. un-traumatic
  3. un-understandability
  4. un-understandableness
  5. un-uninstallable
  6. un-unravelable
  7. un-untieable
  8. un-vegan
  9. un-with-it
  10. un-woke
  11. Una

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