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unterminable

unterminable is the obsolete form of interminable.

Meaning of interminable

Adjective

interminable (comparative more interminable, superlative most interminable)

  1. Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.
    • After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Crawley of Queen’s Crawley”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 61

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Forms of unterminable

comparativemore unterminable
superlativemost unterminable

Questions about unterminable

What is unterminable the obsolete form of?
Unterminable is the obsolete form of interminable.

Words near unterminable in the dictionary

  1. Untergrainau
  2. unterhefe
  3. Untermann
  4. untermensch
  5. untermenschen
  6. unterminable
  7. unterminably
  8. unterminate
  9. unterminated
  10. unterminates
  11. unterminating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unterminable (page history and authors); interminable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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