Definitions

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  • adjective Not connectable; that cannot be connected.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ connectable

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Examples

  • Rather than destroying human connections and face-to-face meetings, Craigslist missed connections demonstrate the internet's ability to connect the otherwise unconnectable.

    PopMatters 2009

  • It's about keeping your avatar, your internet presence and your off-line life unconnectable.

    World of SL 2008

  • It's about keeping your avatar, your internet presence and your off-line life unconnectable.

    World of SL 2008

  • - An explanation of why being firewalled (or being unconnectable, inaccessible, having NAT error, being NATed) is bad. ludde is the author and former maintainer of µTorrent.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks 2008

  • General Burgoyne, is generally followed by a murder of the reputation of the unhappy pilfered girl, which seldom long survives the loss of her heart; the less unfortunate — not the less criminal — of her own sex severely condemning some innocent imprudencies (if I may venture to connect terms in their strict sense so unconnectable) which their conscience, at the moment of their pronouncing the fatal sentence, upbraids them for giving; as it loudly whispers their own inability of keeping securely on their guard against such subtil and destroying felons, who are yet permitted to exist, while many unhappy victims suffer for crimes of not half the magnitude of theirs.

    Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794

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