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unbrookable

unbrookable adjective: not to be brooked or borne; intolerable.

Adjective

unbrookable (comparative more unbrookable, superlative most unbrookable)

  1. Not to be brooked or borne; intolerable.
    • Having keenly felt the degradation of his race, and possibly experienced some outrageous act of injustice, or an unbrookable and unforgivable insult, his flashing eyes are immoveably directed toward the King […]1844, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
    • The original document was in what is known as Hanno O’Nonhanno’s unbrookable script, that is to say, it showed no signs of punctuation of any sort.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 123

Forms of unbrookable

comparativemore unbrookable
superlativemost unbrookable

Origin of unbrookable

From un- + brook + -able; analysable as un- + brookable.

Words formed from unbrookable

Questions about unbrookable

What does unbrookable mean?
Unbrookable means not to be brooked or borne; intolerable.
What part of speech is unbrookable?
Unbrookable is an adjective.

Words near unbrookable in the dictionary

  1. unbronzed
  2. unbrooched
  3. unbrooded
  4. unbrooding
  5. unbroody
  6. unbrookable
  7. unbrookably
  8. unbrooked
  9. unbrother
  10. unbrothered
  11. unbrothering

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