unseatable

unseatable adjective: not seatable; unable to sit or be seated.

Adjective (1)

unseatable (not comparable)

Not seatable; unable to sit or be seated.
- The one time I got called for Jury Duty, it was great: / -I worked for a Newspaper. / -I had long hair with a dyed blonde streak. / -My Mom was in litigation over a hit & run. / I was completely unseatable.1996 November 22, Mike Czaplinski, “Joel rules!”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet)
- If there are five people in a room and four chairs, then you cannot seat all the people simultaneously, despite the fact that, for each person you might choose among the five, there are ways of seating that person (and three others). There is no magically unseatable person.1998 September 30, Robert Hill, “Cantor's Diagonal Proof: FLAWED!”, in sci.math (Usenet)

unseatable (not comparable)

Able to be unseated (in various senses).
- The Anglo-Saxon tradition, deriving from Hooker, Locke, Bentham, Mill, is prone to look upon popular will as a peculiarly unseatable tyrant unless it finds practical expression in forms which safeguard the rights and free choice of the individual.1957 February, Dr. F[rederick] S[amuel] Northedge, “National Self-Determination: The Adventures of a Moral Principle”, in International Relations, volume 1, number 3, Thousand Oaks, C.A.: SAGE...
- […] I probably just wasn't inserting the memory DIMM correctly, not that it was intrinsically unseatable; I zorched the motherboard myself when trying to remove disk drives […]2002 May 20, Timothy A. McDaniel, “ConJose planning”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet)
(nonstandard) Not unseatable; unable to be unseated.
- With the analyst, Joan was searching for a worthy, unseatable replacement for her parents.1987 February, Moshe Halevi Spero, “Identity and Individuality in the Nouveau-Religious Patient: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects”, in Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, volume 50...
- But I am equally convinced that our three horsemen are so solidly saddled as to be virtually unseatable in the foreseeable future.1989, Wayne Otto, “Three Apocalyptic Horsemen”, in Yearbook of the American Reading Forum, volume IX, Athens, Georgia: American Reading Forum, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 138

The seat described has successfully seated a child that was previously unseatable in a static chair.2009, Tim Adlam, Roger Orpwood, Alison Wisbeach, “Supporting Inclusion and Independence: Compliant Seating for Children with Cerebral Palsy...
And yet that does not means that they are somehow inherently unseatable.2020, Nicholas Rescher, “On Explanation and Understanding”, in Knowledge at the Boundaries, Cham, Switzerland: Springer International...
The idea that MSFT is unseatable in its software leadership role is silly.1997 February 10, David Ray, “SUNW - Java for 486/DOS?”, in misc.invest.stocks (Usenet):
If every tournament was like Davis Cup, [Jim] Courier would be unseatable at #1.1998 July 21, Flash444, “Courier and Davis Cup”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):

From un- + seatable (“able to be seated”).

From unseat + -able.

What does unseatable mean?: Unseatable means not seatable; unable to sit or be seated.
How do you use unseatable in a sentence?: The seat described has successfully seated a child that was previously unseatable in a static chair.
What part of speech is unseatable?: Unseatable is an adjective.

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