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unhookable

unhookable adjective: capable of being taken down from hooks.

Adjective (1)

unhookable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being taken down from hooks.

Adjective (2)

unhookable (not comparable)

  1. Impossible to hook or catch hold of.
    • The water was full of unhookable fish; they would strike savagely but quickly slip from the hook before I could even identify them.2008, Paul Schullery, Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir, page 51

Origin of unhookable

From unhook + -able.

From un- + hookable.

Questions about unhookable

What does unhookable mean?
Unhookable means capable of being taken down from hooks.
What part of speech is unhookable?
Unhookable is an adjective.

Words near unhookable in the dictionary

  1. unhoof
  2. unhoofed
  3. unhoofing
  4. unhoofs
  5. unhook
  6. unhookable
  7. unhooked
  8. unhookedness
  9. unhooker
  10. unhookers
  11. unhooking

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