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unabbreviable

unabbreviable adjective: that cannot be abbreviated.

Adjective

unabbreviable (not comparable)

  1. That cannot be abbreviated.
    • - - - in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.1961, Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, published 2000, →ISBN, page 74
    Synonyms:
    unabbreviatable

Synonyms of unabbreviable

Origin of unabbreviable

From un- + abbreviable.

Questions about unabbreviable

What does unabbreviable mean?
Unabbreviable means that cannot be abbreviated.
What part of speech is unabbreviable?
Unabbreviable is an adjective.

Words near unabbreviable in the dictionary

  1. unabatedness
  2. unabatement
  3. unabates
  4. unabating
  5. unabatingly
  6. unabbreviable
  7. unabbreviatable
  8. unabbreviate
  9. unabbreviated
  10. unabbreviates
  11. unabbreviating

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