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  • adjective Not chartable; that cannot be charted.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ chartable

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Examples

  • Such placements in relation to wall or floor grids or to rows — yet unchartable — characterized the sculpture in her major exhibition, “Eva Hesse: Chain Polymers” at the Fischbach Gallery, and in the historic “9 at Leo Castelli” show at the end of the year.

    Eva Hesse. 2009

  • Rather than untangling the paradox of his role, however, Allen has pitched his tent within it, speaking to both sides from some unchartable spot in the middle.

    In Search of a Pope 2004

  • Rather than untangling the paradox of his role, however, Allen has pitched his tent within it, speaking to both sides from some unchartable spot in the middle.

    In Search of a Pope 2004

  • In between a lot happens, or nothing happens: rather, a large number of fascinating questions connected with the poet-poem and poem-reader relationships are raised, discussed intelligently and cooly, and gently dropped back into that dark and unchartable sea from which they came.

    O Altitudo! Enright, D.J. 1970

  • These three books are written in puzzled indignation at the prospect of the ominous, unchartable wilderness of life in our times.

    The World is Not a Wedding Auchincloss, Eve 1965

  • "We want to measure the unmeasurable, chart the unchartable," he said.

    Fast Company 2010

  • If unchecked, Dems will certainly make the "wall of federal debt" table unchartable in five years, while the Repubs have only themselves to blame for their profligate spending the last eight years.

    Blog updates 2009

  • No one would have predicted this ten days ago, which just shows how deep we are in uncharted, indeed, unchartable waters.

    Capitalists@Work 2008

  • It’s uncontrollable, unchartable, and disdainful in that, where it lands, it lands.

    ugotsoul Diary Entry ugotsoul 2003

  • "I have nothing to chart," said Austen, "except such pilgrimages as this, -- and these, after all, are unchartable.

    Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

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