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unstemmable

unstemmable adjective: that cannot be stemmed; being an unstoppable flood.

Adjective

unstemmable (not comparable)

  1. That cannot be stemmed; being an unstoppable flood.
    • Mary takes in a screening of Niagara the day she learns she's carrying Ray's baby, and this is only one of many watery images that flow through the book's roiling currents: Bell's struggle with the lake's waves, the unstemmable surges of illicit passion, the rains that come to carry everything in...2009 September 6, Geoff Pevere, “The human wreckage of the great blow of '54”, in Toronto Star

Origin of unstemmable

From un- + stem + -able.

Questions about unstemmable

What does unstemmable mean?
Unstemmable means that cannot be stemmed; being an unstoppable flood.
What part of speech is unstemmable?
Unstemmable is an adjective.

Words near unstemmable in the dictionary

  1. unsteepled
  2. unsteeples
  3. unsteepling
  4. unsteerable
  5. unsteered
  6. unstemmable
  7. unstemmed
  8. unstenciled
  9. unstencilled
  10. unstenotic
  11. unstented

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