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unsurvivable

unsurvivable adjective: from which survival is difficult or impossible.

Adjective

unsurvivable (comparative more unsurvivable, superlative most unsurvivable)

  1. From which survival is difficult or impossible.
    • They reached floor twenty-five. From this point onwards, thought Alex, a fall would be one hundred percent unsurvivable.2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 297

Forms of unsurvivable

comparativemore unsurvivable
superlativemost unsurvivable

Origin of unsurvivable

From un- + survivable.

Words formed from unsurvivable

Questions about unsurvivable

What does unsurvivable mean?
Unsurvivable means from which survival is difficult or impossible.
What part of speech is unsurvivable?
Unsurvivable is an adjective.

Words near unsurvivable in the dictionary

  1. unsurrounded
  2. unsurveilled
  3. unsurveyable
  4. unsurveyed
  5. unsurvivability
  6. unsurvivable
  7. unsurvived
  8. unsurviving
  9. unsusceptibility
  10. unsusceptible
  11. unsusceptive

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