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unlearnable

unlearnable adjective: not able to be learned.

Adjective (1)

unlearnable (not comparable)

  1. Not able to be learned.
    • Chomsky not only provided such a framework for theories of grammar, but he furthermore suggested that the grammar was unlearnable. Chomsky concluded that aspects of the grammar must be innate: the universal grammar hypothesis.2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 20

Adjective (2)

unlearnable (not comparable)

  1. Able to be unlearned.

Origin of unlearnable

From un- + learnable.

From unlearn + -able.

Words formed from unlearnable

Questions about unlearnable

What does unlearnable mean?
Unlearnable means not able to be learned.
What part of speech is unlearnable?
Unlearnable is an adjective.

Words near unlearnable in the dictionary

  1. unleaky
  2. unleal
  3. unlean
  4. unlearn
  5. unlearnability
  6. unlearnable
  7. unlearnably
  8. unlearned
  9. unlearnedly
  10. unlearnedness
  11. unlearner

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