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unpropitiable

unpropitiable adjective: incapable of being propitiated.

Adjective

unpropitiable (comparative more unpropitiable, superlative most unpropitiable)

  1. Incapable of being propitiated.
    • I discovered seven new, assertive, unpropitiable gray hairs1885, Edgar Fawcett, Social Silhouettes
    • a sacrifice vainly surrendered to unpropitiable seasc. 1958, Richard Palmer Blackmur, Sea Island Miscellany

Forms of unpropitiable

comparativemore unpropitiable
superlativemost unpropitiable

Origin of unpropitiable

From un- + propitiable.

Questions about unpropitiable

What does unpropitiable mean?
Unpropitiable means incapable of being propitiated.
What part of speech is unpropitiable?
Unpropitiable is an adjective.

Words near unpropitiable in the dictionary

  1. unprophesied
  2. unprophetic
  3. unprophetical
  4. unprophetically
  5. unprophetlike
  6. unpropitiable
  7. unpropitiated
  8. unpropitiating
  9. unpropitiative
  10. unpropitiatory
  11. unpropitious

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