unendable

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English

Etymology

un- +‎ endable

Adjective

unendable (not comparable)

  1. Impossible to end; which cannot be ended; interminable.
    • 1913 February, Khedder, in Blackwood's Magazine, page 213:
      The discussion seemed unendable, and I fell asleep on the ground outside[.]
    • 2002, Ronald Wright, Henderson's Spear (→ISBN), page 318:
      In the far-off days before this unending and perhaps unendable war, we believed that reason governed human events, ...
    • 2015, Wendell Berry, Our Only World: Ten Essays (→ISBN):
      The abortion debate involves endless, unendable disagreement about such issues as when a fetus becomes a human or a person, when life begins, when or whether abortion should be legal, whether we should call it “killing” or “termination.”

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