Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not capable of being classed or classified.
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- adjective That cannot be put into a
class ;unclassifiable
Etymologies
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Examples
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These, and birds unnamable, and beasts unclassable, with dots and marks and hieroglyphics, recorded the history of a bygone people.
The Last of the Plainsmen Zane Grey 1905
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He felt very sorry for that unclassable personage; he couldn't bear to see a pleasant man, so pleasant for all his queerness, so beyond anything to be done.
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Possibly he belonged to the unclassed and the unclassable, in which case the interest attaching to him was of the highest kind.
The Emancipated George Gissing 1880
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He felt very sorry for that unclassable personage; he couldn't bear to see a pleasant man, so pleasant for all his queerness, so beyond anything to be done.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 Henry James 1879
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He felt very sorry for that unclassable personage; he couldn’t bear to see
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