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un-unravelable

adj

Etymology

From un- + unravelable.

  1. formed as unravel — “un- + ravel”
  2. suffixed as unravelable — “unravel + able”
  3. formed as un-unravelable — “un- + unravelable”

Definitions

  1. That cannot be unravelled

    That cannot be unravelled; (by extension) difficult to understand.

    • Sheldon Cooper: Well, first of all, your lie was laughably transparent, where mine is exquisitely convoluted. While you were sleeping, I was weaving an un-unravelable web.
    • Two hours later, she waved JC off and set out for the Italian market where she bought Parma ham, sliced so wafer-thin it needed little sheets of wax paper between each slice, so they would not stick together in one un-unravelable lump, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for un-unravelable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA