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unhintable

adj

Etymology

From un- + hintable.

  1. inherited from *hantijaną✻
  2. inherited from *hantijan✻
  3. inherited from hentan — “to seize, grasp”
  4. inherited from hinten
  5. suffixed as hintable — “hint + able”
  6. prefixed as unhintable — “un + hintable”

Definitions

  1. That must not be hinted at

    That must not be hinted at; unmentionable.

    • With the word 'baby' unmentionable and unhintable, we all had to go on pretending that my mother was in bed for some slight cold, or other indisposition.
    • The whole visit was tense with Soppy's unhintable doings.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unhintable. 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