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unlocatable

unlocatable adjective: not locatable; impossible to locate.

Adjective

unlocatable (comparative more unlocatable, superlative most unlocatable)

  1. Not locatable; impossible to locate.
    • In this case it appears to have been randomly applied, like bandages on an unlocatable wound.2007 May 17, Holland Cotter, “Leaving Her Mark, Sometimes With Tape”, in New York Times
    • As work on the assignment progressed, students found that many of the terms they first selected proved unlocatable in English-language contexts, and were only found in Cantonese contexts[.]2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings...

Forms of unlocatable

comparativemore unlocatable
superlativemost unlocatable

Origin of unlocatable

From un- + locatable.

Questions about unlocatable

What does unlocatable mean?
Unlocatable means not locatable; impossible to locate.
What part of speech is unlocatable?
Unlocatable is an adjective.

Words near unlocatable in the dictionary

  1. unlocalize
  2. unlocalized
  3. unlocalizes
  4. unlocalizing
  5. unlocally
  6. unlocatable
  7. unlocated
  8. unlock
  9. unlockability
  10. unlockable
  11. unlockables

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