insanable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin īnsānābilis. Compare Old French insanable. See in- (“not”) + sanable.
Adjective
[edit]insanable (comparative more insanable, superlative most insanable)
- Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.
- Synonym: sanable
- 1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 132:
- […] by the Cirrhæan spikes, by the boiled head of my own baby served in Egyptian vinegar, I curse the whole insanable cacoëthical cohort of scriptitating—
References
[edit]- “insanable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]insanable m or f (masculine and feminine plural insanables)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “insanable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014