Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- adj. impossible to find
Examples
“Listen to my son, Max, pronounce the French word "introuvable": Download introuvable. wav”
“Listen to my son, Max, pronounce the French word "introuvable": Download introuvable.wav”
“French synonyms for "introuvable": perdu (lost), disparu (vanished), envolé (vanished [into thin air]), caché (hidden)”
“French synonyms for "introuvable": perdu (lost), disparu (vanished), envolé (vanished into thin air), caché (hidden)”
“The Council of the Ancients had, however, already decided that a provisional executive commission should be appointed, composed of three members, and was about to name the members of the commission -- a measure which should have originated with the Five Hundred -- when Lucien came to acquaint Bonaparte that his chamber 'introuvable' was assembled.”
The Memoirs of Napoleon
“-- Library Journal introuvable (in-troo-vable) adjective which (or who) cannot be found, undiscoverable”
“-Library Journal introuvable (in-troo-vable) adjective which (or who) cannot be found, undiscoverable”
“I said, upset at the realization that our star was introuvable.”
“La Revolution introuvable: Reflexions sur les evenements de”
1968 the Year that Rocked the World
“La révolution introuvable: Reflexions sur la revolution de mai en toute liberté by Raymond Aron”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘introuvable’.
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Word Words
This used to be my nym list, but there are so many words about words, I think it's time to expand and open.
acronym, antonym, aptronym, autoantonym, autonym, bacronym, capitonym, contranym, contronym, eponym, exonym, heteronym and 120 more...
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Better Words
Extremely fond of adjectives. To conquer phlegmatic speech and indolent phrases.
auric, hemispherical, quadrivial, adumbral, weighty, deuced, aliquot, commendable, anterior, osculant, ferly, enceinte and 26 more...
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Rare Books
Words used in the rare book trade (of which I was once a part). For more about how such books are put together, see hernesheir's excellent The Bindery.
foxing, gilt, headband, bumped, endpaper, leaf, colophon, vellum, laid paper, boards, device, engraving and 168 more...
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Don't Be a LAZY LINGUIST!
Words that remind me to:
Stop speaking with laze.
Exercise my intellect more than my tongue.
Choose Better Company.
This is not the "Ooh, I love the way these words ...splore, inoculate, dysphemism, bruit, mellifluous, winsome, rancor, aplomb, equivocate, palpable, equivocate, licentious and 127 more...
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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recidivate, peripatetic, insipid, otiose, epeolatry, verisimilitude, antilogy, extirpate, noetic, mordant, susurrous, vatic and 188 more...
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kawy's list
subtrist, tricoteuse, undisonant, apricity, apricity, nudiustertian, snaste, chrestomath, chrestomath, velleity, zugzwang, muntin and 106 more...
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persnickety parlance
ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe, timorous and 1050 more...
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Bella's new
vim, inveigh, diaphanous, internecine, introuvable, frangible, opitulation, celerity, ineffable, sapid, alacrity
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Lexiphanic
quisquous, ataxy, lexiphanic, sesquipedalian, jactation, nugatory, jejune, heuristic, sciolist, facinorous, apostate, arcipluvian and 6 more...
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the_word_is_what's list
Cool new words that I'm going to try to start using in my life.
inchoate, opprobrium, pleionosis, loquacious, trite, junta, loya jirga, somnambulant, bowdlerize, lexiphanicism, stultify, introuvable and 18 more...
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Ammon Shea's OED faves
velleity, sialoquent, psithurism, postvide, peracme, onomatomania, introuvable, ignotism, father-waur, bouffage, apricity, obmutescence
the_word_is_what "Introuvable" showed up in this years Scripps' National Spelling Bee. Jun 11, 2008
the_word_is_what "Introuvable" showed up in this years Scripps' National Spelling Bee. Jun 11, 2008
reesetee Immpossible to find; specifically in reference to books or printed ephemera. Also used as a noun. Aug 28, 2007