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unvintageable

unvintageable adjective: not fit to drink.

Adjective

unvintageable (comparative more unvintageable, superlative most unvintageable)

  1. (poetic) Not fit to drink.
    • I stood by the unvintageable sea
      Till the wet waves drenched face and hair with spray, […]1881, Oscar Wilde, “[Rosa Mystica.] Vita Nuova.”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 52
    • Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?1915, Rupert Brooke, en route to the Bosporus, as quoted by William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518

Forms of unvintageable

comparativemore unvintageable
superlativemost unvintageable

Origin of unvintageable

From un- + vintage + -able, an allusion to the Greek poet Homer's epithets for the sea.

Questions about unvintageable

What does unvintageable mean?
Unvintageable means not fit to drink.
What part of speech is unvintageable?
Unvintageable is an adjective.

Words near unvintageable in the dictionary

  1. unvindicated
  2. unvindictive
  3. unvindictively
  4. unvindictiveness
  5. unvinegared
  6. unvintageable
  7. unvintaged
  8. unviolable
  9. unviolate
  10. unviolated
  11. unviolation

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