unpropitiable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + propitiable.
Adjective
[edit]unpropitiable (comparative more unpropitiable, superlative most unpropitiable)
- Incapable of being propitiated.
- 1885, Edgar Fawcett, Social Silhouettes:
- I discovered seven new, assertive, unpropitiable gray hairs
- c. 1958, Richard Palmer Blackmur, Sea Island Miscellany:
- a sacrifice vainly surrendered to unpropitiable seas