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unsmeltable

unsmeltable adjective: not smeltable.

Adjective

unsmeltable (not comparable)

  1. Not smeltable.
    • The curtain wall our guild was to help defend was ruinous even then, with a wide gap between the Red Tower and the Bear, where I used to climb the fallen slabs of unsmeltable gray metal to look out over the necropolis that descends that side of Citadel Hill.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter 2, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 19–20

Origin of unsmeltable

From un- + smeltable.

Questions about unsmeltable

What does unsmeltable mean?
Unsmeltable means not smeltable.
What part of speech is unsmeltable?
Unsmeltable is an adjective.

Words near unsmeltable in the dictionary

  1. unsmelled
  2. unsmelling
  3. unsmells
  4. unsmelly
  5. unsmelt
  6. unsmeltable
  7. unsmelted
  8. unsmiled
  9. unsmiling
  10. unsmilingly
  11. unsmilingness

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