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unbrushable

unbrushable adjective: not brushable.

Adjective

unbrushable (comparative more unbrushable, superlative most unbrushable)

  1. Not brushable.
    • My pluckly little friend Dash was (considering his small offensive powers) the bravest of the brave; for his winning way of bringing stones or anything else he could pick up to you, whenever he wanted a caress, or some little tit-bit to eat, had completely ground down his teeth to an unbrushable...1880, Sir Stephen Bartlet Lakeman, What I Saw in Kaffir-land, page 134

Forms of unbrushable

comparativemore unbrushable
superlativemost unbrushable

Origin of unbrushable

From un- + brushable.

Questions about unbrushable

What does unbrushable mean?
Unbrushable means not brushable.
What part of speech is unbrushable?
Unbrushable is an adjective.

Words near unbrushable in the dictionary

  1. unbruisable
  2. unbruised
  3. unbruited
  4. unbrused
  5. unbrush
  6. unbrushable
  7. unbrushed
  8. unbrushes
  9. unbrushing
  10. unbrutalised
  11. unbrutalize

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