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unmarriageable

adj

Etymology

From un- + marriageable.

  1. derived from marītō — “marry”
  2. derived from mariage
  3. inherited from mariage
  4. formed as marriageable — “marriage + -able”
  5. formed as unmarriageable — “un- + marriageable”

Definitions

  1. Not marriageable, unsuitable for marriage.

    • You have always had a little way of alluding to her as an unmarriageable girl.
    • He had a way of pronouncing the word "miss" that made it an epithet, a sneer at her unmarried and unmarriageable state.

  2. That cannot be reconciled, inconsistent.

    • A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and he was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need, the mediator betwixt two else unmarriageable facts.
    • […] which is a very curious cross between two things that at first sight may seem unmarriageable, the Wordsworthian enthusiasm and the Byronic despair.

The neighborhood

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