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unburiable

unburiable adjective: not ready or not proper to be buried.

Adjective

unburiable (not comparable)

  1. Not ready or not proper to be buried.
    • […]A yet-warm corpse, and yet unburiable,[…]1874, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 40

Origin of unburiable

From un- + buriable.

Questions about unburiable

What does unburiable mean?
Unburiable means not ready or not proper to be buried.
What part of speech is unburiable?
Unburiable is an adjective.

Words near unburiable in the dictionary

  1. unburdensome
  2. unburdensomeness
  3. unbureaucratic
  4. unbureaucratically
  5. unburgled
  6. unburiable
  7. unburial
  8. unburials
  9. unburied
  10. unburies
  11. unburlapped

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