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undocumentable

undocumentable adjective: not supportable with documentary evidence.

Adjective

undocumentable (not comparable)

  1. Not supportable with documentary evidence.
    • These hearsay claims are intrinsically undocumentable.
    • KPM should have indicated which of their statements where undocumented or undocumentable and should have been more cautious.1953, W. Cochran, F. Mosteller, and J. Tukey, "Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol 48 no 264 (Dec), p. 674.

Examples of undocumentable in a sentence

  • . . . that undocumentable life of which, Sonstroem repeatedly acknowledges, he may not himself even have been aware.1972 Nov, W. E. Fredeman, “Impediments and Motives: Biography as an Unfair Sport”, in Modern Philology, volume 70, number 2, page 151:
  • Real science is so damned exciting, transforming, and provable, why would anyone prefer the undocumentable nonsense of astrology, alien abductions, and so forth?1997 January 31, Stephen Jay Gould, “Editorial: Bright Star Among Billions”, in Science, volume 275, number 5300, page 599:

Antonyms of undocumentable

Origin of undocumentable

From un- + documentable.

Questions about undocumentable

What does undocumentable mean?
Undocumentable means not supportable with documentary evidence.
How do you use undocumentable in a sentence?
. . . that undocumentable life of which, Sonstroem repeatedly acknowledges, he may not himself even have been aware.
What part of speech is undocumentable?
Undocumentable is an adjective.

Words near undocumentable in the dictionary

  1. undoctors
  2. undoctrinaire
  3. undoctrinal
  4. undoctrined
  5. undocument
  6. undocumentable
  7. undocumentably
  8. undocumentary
  9. undocumented
  10. undocumented alien
  11. undocumented aliens

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