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unprintable

unprintable adjective: not printable; obscene, or unable to be displayed textually.

Adjective

unprintable (not comparable)

  1. Not printable; obscene, or unable to be displayed textually.
    • "There was poor old Wadley, of the Zoological Institute. Wadley sent a message: 'The President of the Zoological Institute presents his compliments to Professor Challenger, and would take it as a personal favor if he would do them the honor to come to their next meeting.' The answer was...1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    • Once a neighbor complained that a Gilbreth had called the neighbor's boy a son of an unprintable word.1949, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.; Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen

Noun

unprintable (plural unprintables)

  1. Something that is not printable.
    • LabVIEW will interpret one- or two-character codes following the backslash character, as shown in Table 2.1. You can also enter unprintables by simply typing them into the string.2019, Richard Jennings, LabVIEW Graphical Programming, Fifth Edition, page 91

unprintable meaning in Kannada

unprintable in Kannada

ಮುದ್ರಿಸಲಾಗದ, ಅಶ್ಲೀಲ, ಅಶಿಷ್ಟ, ಅವಾಚ್ಯ

Antonyms of unprintable

Forms of unprintable

pluralunprintables

Origin of unprintable

From un- + printable.

Words formed from unprintable

Questions about unprintable

What does unprintable mean?
Unprintable means not printable; obscene, or unable to be displayed textually.
What is unprintable in Kannada?
Unprintable in Kannada is ಮುದ್ರಿಸಲಾಗದ, ಅಶ್ಲೀಲ, ಅಶಿಷ್ಟ. See Unprintable meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is unprintable?
Unprintable can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near unprintable in the dictionary

  1. unprincipledness
  2. unprinciples
  3. unprincipling
  4. unprint
  5. unprintability
  6. unprintable
  7. unprintableness
  8. unprintables
  9. unprintably
  10. unprinted
  11. unprinting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unprintable (page history and authors); unprintable (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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