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undrainable

undrainable adjective: that cannot be drained.

Adjective

undrainable (comparative more undrainable, superlative most undrainable)

  1. That cannot be drained.
    • an undrainable pond
    • It was as though it [the rain] defied the Castle's inmost faith; taunted it with a dull, ignorant descent of blasphemy, as though the undrainable clouds were muttering: 'What is an Earling to us? It is immaterial.'1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC

Forms of undrainable

comparativemore undrainable
superlativemost undrainable

Origin of undrainable

From un- + drainable.

Questions about undrainable

What does undrainable mean?
Undrainable means that cannot be drained.
What part of speech is undrainable?
Undrainable is an adjective.

Words near undrainable in the dictionary

  1. undragoned
  2. undragonish
  3. undragonlike
  4. undragooned
  5. undrain
  6. undrainable
  7. undrained
  8. undraining
  9. undrains
  10. undramatic
  11. undramatical

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