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  • adjective Incapable of being aided.

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  • adjective That cannot be aided.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ aidable

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Examples

  • 'Neuralgia!' the doctors then all said, by which they mean they know not in the least what; in this case, such a deluge of intolerable pain, indescribable, unaidable pain, as I had never seen or dreamt of, and which drowned six or eight months of my poor darling's life as in the blackness of very death; her recovery at last, and the manner of it, an unexpected miracle to me.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

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