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unarchivable

unarchivable adjective: incapable of being archived.

Adjective

unarchivable (not comparable)

  1. Incapable of being archived.
    • The photograph isolates a moment in time and engraves what would otherwise be an ephemeral instant, unarchivable.2002, Mary Ann Doane, The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive, page 102

Origin of unarchivable

From un- + archivable.

Questions about unarchivable

What does unarchivable mean?
Unarchivable means incapable of being archived.
What part of speech is unarchivable?
Unarchivable is an adjective.

Words near unarchivable in the dictionary

  1. unarced
  2. unarch
  3. unarchaic
  4. unarched
  5. unarchitectural
  6. unarchivable
  7. unarchive
  8. unarchived
  9. unarchiver
  10. unarchivers
  11. unarchives

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