unmarriageable
unmarriageable adjective: not marriageable, unsuitable for marriage.
Adjective
unmarriageable (comparative more unmarriageable, superlative most unmarriageable)
- Not marriageable, unsuitable for marriage.
- You have always had a little way of alluding to her as an unmarriageable girl.1880, Henry James, chapter VI, in Washington Square, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 50
- He had a way of pronouncing the word "miss" that made it an epithet, a sneer at her unmarried and unmarriageable state.1912, David Graham Phillips, The Price She Paid, Gutenberg, published 2008
- That cannot be reconciled, inconsistent.
- A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and he was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need, the mediator betwixt two else unmarriageable facts.1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature
- […] which is a very curious cross between two things that at first sight may seem unmarriageable, the Wordsworthian enthusiasm and the Byronic despair.1902, George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, Gutenberg, published 2005
Forms of unmarriageable
| comparative | more unmarriageable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unmarriageable |
Origin of unmarriageable
From un- + marriageable.
Words formed from unmarriageable
Questions about unmarriageable
- What does unmarriageable mean?
- Unmarriageable means not marriageable, unsuitable for marriage.
- What part of speech is unmarriageable?
- Unmarriageable is an adjective.
Words near unmarriageable in the dictionary
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