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unmentionable

adj

Etymology

From un- + mentionable.

  1. derived from mentiōnem
  2. derived from mention
  3. inherited from mencioun
  4. suffixed as mentionable — “mention + able”
  5. prefixed as unmentionable — “un + mentionable”

Definitions

  1. Too embarrassing or shocking to be discussed.

  2. Something not to be discussed in polite society.

    • I'm a lesbian female, 20 years old and my most outstanding features are my pierced unmentionable and my eyes.
    • He was taught from childhood that the world does not condone homosexuality and that it is an unmentionable of decent people.
    • Here, after all, was the circle round which Forster passed the manuscript of his novel Maurice which conveyed so much about being 'an unmentionable of the Oscar Wilde sort'.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unmentionable. 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