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unfaceable

unfaceable adjective: unable to be faced or confronted.

Adjective

unfaceable (comparative more unfaceable, superlative most unfaceable)

  1. Unable to be faced or confronted.
    • Stupefying heat shimmered in the mangrove forest, the sun an unfaceable white glare somewhere overhead.2011, A. A. Jameson, Shark People, page 113

Forms of unfaceable

comparativemore unfaceable
superlativemost unfaceable

Origin of unfaceable

From un- + faceable.

Questions about unfaceable

What does unfaceable mean?
Unfaceable means unable to be faced or confronted.
What part of speech is unfaceable?
Unfaceable is an adjective.

Words near unfaceable in the dictionary

  1. unf
  2. unfabled
  3. unfabricated
  4. unfabulous
  5. unface
  6. unfaceable
  7. unfaced
  8. unfaces
  9. unfaceted
  10. unfacetious
  11. unfacetiously

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