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unpardonable

unpardonable adjective: impossible to pardon; impossible to excuse or justify.

Adjective

unpardonable (comparative more unpardonable, superlative most unpardonable)

  1. impossible to pardon; impossible to excuse or justify
    • And you will ſee it really may happen in this very happy land, that men who are rich may commit, with impunity, crimes infinitely more unpardonable, becauſe they are committed with leſs temptation, than thoſe for which “little villains” ſuffer every day—crimes which involve in their conſequences...1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter XI, in The Banished Man. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 236
    • "I can understand your being wicked," she said keenly, "but not your being cowardly. That is and was unpardonable."1900, Gilbert Parker, An Unpardonable Liar

unpardonable meaning in Urdu, Kannada and Persian

unpardonable in Urdu

ناقابل معافی

unpardonable in Kannada

ಕಡೆಗಣಿಸಲಾಗದ, ತಪ್ಪುಮರೆಯಲಾಗದ

unpardonable in Persian

impossible to pardon or forgive
نابخشودنی nâbaxšudani

Examples of unpardonable in a sentence

  • To lose a game was bad enough, but to round on a comrade was unpardonable; while to lose from the game a half-back of Cameron's calibre was unthinkable.1912, Ralph Connor, Corporal Cameron of the Northwest Mounted Police:
  • It would be unpardonable to ignore the repeated lessons of history.1949, The Department of State Bulletin, volume 20, page 472:

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Forms of unpardonable

comparativemore unpardonable
superlativemost unpardonable

Origin of unpardonable

From un- + pardonable.

Words formed from unpardonable

Phrases with unpardonable

Questions about unpardonable

What does unpardonable mean?
Unpardonable means impossible to pardon; impossible to excuse or justify.
What is unpardonable in Urdu?
Unpardonable in Urdu is ناقابل معافی. See Unpardonable meaning in Urdu.
How do you use unpardonable in a sentence?
To lose a game was bad enough, but to round on a comrade was unpardonable; while to lose from the game a half-back of Cameron's calibre was unthinkable.
What part of speech is unpardonable?
Unpardonable is an adjective.

Words near unpardonable in the dictionary

  1. unparches
  2. unparching
  3. unparchmented
  4. unparchmentized
  5. unpardonability
  6. unpardonable
  7. unpardonable sin
  8. unpardonable sins
  9. unpardonableness
  10. unpardonably
  11. unpardoned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpardonable (page history and authors); unpardonable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unpardonable (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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