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unclubbable

Syllables: un·club·ba·bleUK/ʌnˈklʌb.ə.bl̩/US/ˌənˈkləb.ə.b(ə)l/

unclubbable adjective: not suitable for membership of a club, because of a lack of social skills or conformity; unsociable.

Adjective

unclubbable (comparative more unclubbable, superlative most unclubbable)

  1. Not suitable for membership of a club, because of a lack of social skills or conformity; unsociable.
    • ‘But Sir John was a most unclubable man!’1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 95
    • It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town.1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter”, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, page 212
    Antonyms:
    clubbable, sociable

Examples of unclubbable in a sentence

  • I have to conclude that I am unclubbable.2003, Joseph Epstein, Snobbery: The American Version, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 141:
  • For much of the nineteenth century, conventional wisdom deemed women intractably unclubbable.2012, Barbara Black, A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland, Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 219:

Synonyms of unclubbable

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All synonyms and antonyms of unclubbable

Forms of unclubbable

comparativemore unclubbable
superlativemost unclubbable

Origin of unclubbable

From un- + clubbable.

Words formed from unclubbable

Questions about unclubbable

What does unclubbable mean?
Unclubbable means not suitable for membership of a club, because of a lack of social skills or conformity; unsociable.
How do you use unclubbable in a sentence?
I have to conclude that I am unclubbable.
What part of speech is unclubbable?
Unclubbable is an adjective.
How do you pronounce unclubbable?
Unclubbable is pronounced /ʌnˈklʌb.ə.bl̩/ (UK).

Words near unclubbable in the dictionary

  1. unclownish
  2. uncloyed
  3. uncloying
  4. unclubable
  5. unclubableness
  6. unclubbable
  7. unclubbableness
  8. unclubbed
  9. unclubbish
  10. unclubby
  11. unclue

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