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unborable

unborable adjective: impossible to bore, or cause to lose interest.

Adjective

unborable (comparative more unborable, superlative most unborable)

  1. Impossible to bore, or cause to lose interest.
    • You can talk to him all night about anything: he's quite unborable.
    • To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 440
  2. Impossible to bore or drill into.
    • […] rocks having an asbestos-like structure are almost unborable, the time amounting to several hours per ft.1908, Charles George Warnford Lock, Miners' Pocket-book, page 216

Forms of unborable

comparativemore unborable
superlativemost unborable
alternative formunboreable

Origin of unborable

From un- + borable.

Questions about unborable

What does unborable mean?
Unborable means impossible to bore, or cause to lose interest.
What part of speech is unborable?
Unborable is an adjective.

Words near unborable in the dictionary

  1. unboot
  2. unbootable
  3. unbooted
  4. unbooting
  5. unboots
  6. unborable
  7. unboraxed
  8. unborder
  9. unbordered
  10. unbordering
  11. unborders

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