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unwishable

unwishable adjective: that cannot or must not be wished.

Adjective

unwishable (not comparable)

  1. That cannot or must not be wished.
    • This interpretation, though it doth not suppose an eternal separation from Christ to be the matter of the Apostle's actual wish, at one time or other, or upon one consideration or other, wherein it differs from the former; yet it rendereth it as a thing wishable, or which the Apostle could and...1653, John Goodwin, An Exposition of The Ninth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, [1652, A Paraphrase], 1835, Baynes and Son, page 69
    • Since it is his mother, the wish is unwishable, insupportable. How will he treat other women in the face of this unwishable wish?1988, Esquire: The Magazine for Men, volume 109, page 432

Origin of unwishable

From un- + wishable.

Questions about unwishable

What does unwishable mean?
Unwishable means that cannot or must not be wished.
What part of speech is unwishable?
Unwishable is an adjective.

Words near unwishable in the dictionary

  1. unwisely
  2. unwiseness
  3. unwiser
  4. unwisest
  5. unwish
  6. unwishable
  7. unwished
  8. unwished-for
  9. unwishes
  10. unwishful
  11. unwishfully

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