Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal So well written and entertaining as to be difficult to put down.
Wiktionary
- adj. Impossible to put down.
- adj. Of a book or other written work, captivating; engrossing.
Etymologies
- un- + put down + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“According to the Times review, Douglas Kennedy is famous for writing insightfully about women's lives, and crafting gripping narratives (the word "unputdownable" is used).”
“Deemed "unputdownable" by Washington Post critic Michael Dirda, the book heralded a lifelong passion for discrediting scientific fraud and quackery.”
“I have often read the word "unputdownable" to describe a book, but in this case it is true.”
“Please tell Lasse Bergstr ö m the former head of Norstedts, publisher of the books, who called the books " unputdownable " that he is obviously an intelligent and sensible person of impeccable taste, and that flattery will get him everywhere.”
“It locked straight into that core of whatever defines 'unputdownable'.”
seanan_mcguire: The Three Sisters: Fantasy, Horror, and Marchen.
“It was one of the best novels I read last year and I'm not sure I've read a book that was as "unputdownable" since.”
“The only man to make it on to the first-novel shortlist is a former screen writer, Tom Rob Smith, whose Stalinist-era Child 44 was described as "unputdownable".”
“I was at the Book Depot and found the word "unputdownable" on three book jackets and I wasn't even searching for it.”
“One often reads the word" unputdownable "to describe a book – it is certainly a true description of this one.”
“I have often read the word "unputdownable" to describe a book, but in this case it is true: I was glad I started the book on a weekend and had no other commitments, so I could finish it in a day. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unputdownable’.
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This intriguing novel .... is a taut,...
Crimes committed by book reviewers. Terms here are culled shamelessly from a recent New York Times blog post, and the comments that it generated.
Seven Deadly Sins
See a...poignant, compelling, taut, lyrical, spare, eschew, limn, craft, nuanced, contrived, majestic, subtle and 52 more...
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jbd1's Words
mondegreen, discombobulate, ourobouros, unputdownable, gobbledygook, zephyr, obloquy, prestidigitation, glossolalia, dilapidated, revivification, truthiness and 92 more...
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No Comeuppance!
comeuppance, ersatz, mensuration, felicitous, puissant, coccyx, groin vault, jactitation, titivate, crapulous, bibulous, lucubration and 116 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Interesting/mellifluous/delicious
insouciant, expiate, apotheosis, insidious, teacup, homunculus, porcine, perestroika, milquetoast, unputdownable, paroxysm, agitprop and 65 more...
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