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unreturnable

unreturnable adjective: that is not able to be returned.

Adjective

unreturnable (comparative more unreturnable, superlative most unreturnable)

  1. That is not able to be returned.
    • But for Native people in this country, all over the Americas, it’s been developed over, buried ancestral land, glass and concrete and wire and steel, unreturnable covered memory.2018, Tommy Orange, There There, Harvill Secker, page 39
  2. That is not designed to be returned; nonreturnable.

Forms of unreturnable

comparativemore unreturnable
superlativemost unreturnable

Origin of unreturnable

From un- + returnable.

Words formed from unreturnable

Questions about unreturnable

What does unreturnable mean?
Unreturnable means that is not able to be returned.
What part of speech is unreturnable?
Unreturnable is an adjective.

Words near unreturnable in the dictionary

  1. unretrieved
  2. unretrofitted
  3. unretroflexed
  4. unretted
  5. unreturnability
  6. unreturnable
  7. unreturnably
  8. unreturned
  9. unreturning
  10. unreturningly
  11. unretweet

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