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unvenerable

unvenerable adjective: not venerable.

Adjective

unvenerable (comparative more unvenerable, superlative most unvenerable)

  1. Not venerable.
    • Sons of God, in opposition to Unjust and Sons of Belial, - which latter indeed are second-oldest, but yet a very unvenerable order.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 3, Landlord Edmund”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)
    • This gift for taking the urgent issues of the day and presenting them as detective stories that race past like footfalls down an alleyway has made Pamuk the best-selling writer in the history of his native Turkey and the deserving winner of last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, at the unvenerable...2007 September 30, Pico Iyer, “A View of the Bosporus”, in New York Times

Forms of unvenerable

comparativemore unvenerable
superlativemost unvenerable

Origin of unvenerable

From un- + venerable.

Questions about unvenerable

What does unvenerable mean?
Unvenerable means not venerable.
What part of speech is unvenerable?
Unvenerable is an adjective.

Words near unvenerable in the dictionary

  1. unvenal
  2. unvendable
  3. unvended
  4. unvendible
  5. unveneered
  6. unvenerable
  7. unvenerated
  8. unvenged
  9. unvengeful
  10. unvengefulness
  11. unvenial

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