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unenterable

unenterable adjective: that cannot be entered.

Adjective

unenterable (not comparable)

  1. That cannot be entered.
    • There is no aesthetic distance here separating actors from audience and placing the depicted events in an unenterable world of illusion...1973, Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures

Origin of unenterable

From un- + enterable.

Questions about unenterable

What does unenterable mean?
Unenterable means that cannot be entered.
What part of speech is unenterable?
Unenterable is an adjective.

Words near unenterable in the dictionary

  1. unentanglements
  2. unentangler
  3. unentanglers
  4. unentangles
  5. unentangling
  6. unenterable
  7. unentered
  8. unenterprise
  9. unenterprising
  10. unenterprisingly
  11. unenterprisingness

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