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unfattenable

unfattenable adjective: that cannot be fattened.

Adjective

unfattenable (comparative more unfattenable, superlative most unfattenable)

  1. That cannot be fattened.
    • The cow is a large, raw, high-boned, unfattenable animal, and being regularly wrought in the cultivation of the soil the milk is bad.1854, William Graham, The Jordan and the Rhine; or, The East and the West, page 46
    • Of the many explanations that have been put forward one is that the unfattenable person consumes the calories by much greater muscular energy than the fattenable person.1963, Home Economics, volume 9, page 6

Forms of unfattenable

comparativemore unfattenable
superlativemost unfattenable

Origin of unfattenable

From un- + fatten + -able.

Questions about unfattenable

What does unfattenable mean?
Unfattenable means that cannot be fattened.
What part of speech is unfattenable?
Unfattenable is an adjective.

Words near unfattenable in the dictionary

  1. unfatigued
  2. unfatigues
  3. unfatiguing
  4. unfattable
  5. unfatted
  6. unfattenable
  7. unfattened
  8. unfattening
  9. unfatty
  10. unfatuous
  11. unfaultable

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