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unmistakable

unmistakable adjective: unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.

Adjective

unmistakable (comparative more unmistakable, superlative most unmistakable)

  1. Unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.
    • Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had...1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC
    • Whenever the locomotive was working hard there was unmistakable evidence of its higher power than its predecessors in the brilliant and explosive arcing between conductor shoes and the third rail; this was particularly vivid in Quarry Tunnel in the down direction, where the display equalled...1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 125
    Antonyms:
    mistakable

unmistakable meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

unmistakable in Tamil

தவறாகக் கொள்ளமுடியாத, ஐயுறத்தக்கதாய் இல்லாத, தெளிவான

unmistakable in Malayalam

അബദ്ധംവരുവാൻ പാടില്ലാത്ത, തെറ്റിദ്ധരിക്കാനാവാത്ത, വ്യക്തമായ, സ്പഷ്ടമായ

unmistakable in Kannada

ತಪ್ಪಲಾಗದ, ತೆಳುವಾದ

Examples of unmistakable in a sentence

  • There was an unmistakable edge to her remarks.
  • The sound of the clicketting foxes was unmistakable.
  • Then we hear the unmistakable gacking of a dog about to puke.

All 27 example sentences with unmistakable

Antonyms of unmistakable

Forms of unmistakable

comparativemore unmistakable
superlativemost unmistakable
alternative formunmistakeable

Origin of unmistakable

From un- + mistake + -able.

Words formed from unmistakable

Questions about unmistakable

What does unmistakable mean?
Unmistakable means unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.
What is unmistakable in Tamil?
Unmistakable in Tamil is தவறாகக் கொள்ளமுடியாத, ஐயுறத்தக்கதாய் இல்லாத, தெளிவான. See Unmistakable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unmistakable?
Unmistakable is an adjective.

Words near unmistakable in the dictionary

  1. unmissed
  2. unmissionary
  3. unmissionized
  4. unmist
  5. unmistakability
  6. unmistakable
  7. unmistakableness
  8. unmistakably
  9. unmistakeability
  10. unmistakeable
  11. unmistakeableness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unmistakable (page history and authors); unmistakable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unmistakable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unmistakable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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