uncommentable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ commentable.

Adjective[edit]

uncommentable (not comparable)

  1. That cannot productively or meaningfully be commented on.
    • 1836, Wilhelm Koellner, translated by Samuel Jackson, The Return to Faith; Exemplified in the Life of W. Koellner, page 291:
      When these gentlemen shall at length be so taught of God, as to see what Moses says in Gen i. 1, they will then throw away their theological sophistry, and understand God's eternal, powerful, uncommentable word, and become divinely wise.
    • 2005, Stuart Sim, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98, Chris Murray, Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, page 175,
      Duchamp's work is held to resist critical analysis, having for Lyotard ‘something uncommentable’ about it that defeats the critic.
    • 2010, John P. Anderson, Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah[1], volume 4, page 82:
      He was sporting his inky Italian moustaches glistering with Vaseline and perfume. Puh! How uncommentable!

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