unseatable

English

Etymology 1

From un- +‎ seatable (“able to be seated”).

Adjective

unseatable (not comparable)

1. Not seatable; unable to sit or be seated.
   • 1996 November 22, Mike Czaplinski, “Joel rules!”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc‎^[1] (Usenet):

     The one time I got called for Jury Duty, it was great: / -I worked for a Newspaper. / -I had long hair with a dyed blonde streak. / -My Mom was in litigation over a hit & run. / I was completely unseatable.

   • 1998 September 30, Robert Hill, “Cantor's Diagonal Proof: FLAWED!”, in sci.math‎^[2] (Usenet):

     If there are five people in a room and four chairs, then you cannot seat all the people simultaneously, despite the fact that, for each person you might choose among the five, there are ways of seating that person (and three others). There is no magically unseatable person.

   • 2009, Tim Adlam, Roger Orpwood, Alison Wisbeach, “Supporting Inclusion and Independence: Compliant Seating for Children with Cerebral Palsy and Whole Body Extensor Spasms”, in Assistive Technology from Adapted Equipment to Inclusive Environments (Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science; 48), Amsterdam,  […]: IOS Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 56:

     The seat described has successfully seated a child that was previously unseatable in a static chair. He is comfortable and is able to sit in his chair for extended periods of time.

   • 2020, Nicholas Rescher, “On Explanation and Understanding”, in Knowledge at the Boundaries, Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, page 53:

     Consider the analogy of the game of musical chairs. Since there are fewer seat^[sic] than players, this means that there are bound to be some that go without. And yet that does not means that they are somehow inherently unseatable. No player is in principle unseatable—destined to go without.

Etymology 2

From unseat +‎ -able.

Adjective

unseatable (not comparable)

1. Able to be unseated (in various senses).
   • 1957 February, Dr. F[rederick] S[amuel] Northedge, “National Self-Determination: The Adventures of a Moral Principle”, in International Relations, volume 1, number 3, Thousand Oaks, C.A.: SAGE Publications, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 84:

     The Anglo-Saxon tradition, deriving from Hooker, Locke, Bentham, Mill, is prone to look upon popular will as a peculiarly unseatable tyrant unless it finds practical expression in forms which safeguard the rights and free choice of the individual.

   • 2002 May 20, Timothy A. McDaniel, “ConJose planning”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎^[3] (Usenet):

     […] I probably just wasn't inserting the memory DIMM correctly, not that it was intrinsically unseatable; I zorched the motherboard myself when trying to remove disk drives […]

2. (nonstandard) Not unseatable; unable to be unseated.
   • 1987 February, Moshe Halevi Spero, “Identity and Individuality in the Nouveau-Religious Patient: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects”, in Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, volume 50, number 1, Washington, D.C.: Washington School of Psychiatry, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:

     With the analyst, Joan was searching for a worthy, unseatable replacement for her parents.

   • 1989, Wayne Otto, “Three Apocalyptic Horsemen”, in Yearbook of the American Reading Forum, volume IX, Athens, Georgia: American Reading Forum, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 138:

     But I am equally convinced that our three horsemen are so solidly saddled as to be virtually unseatable in the foreseeable future.

   • 1997 February 10, David Ray, “SUNW - Java for 486/DOS?”, in misc.invest.stocks‎^[4] (Usenet):

     This can be construed as nothing other than an assault on MSFT, which seems like a good idea to me. The idea that MSFT is unseatable in its software leadership role is silly.

   • 1998 July 21, Flash444, “Courier and Davis Cup”, in rec.sport.tennis‎^[5] (Usenet):

     If every tournament was like Davis Cup, [Jim] Courier would be unseatable at #1. He seems to thrive in the capacity that is Davis Cup.

   • 2015 September 24, pataphor, “The correct contrarian cluster”, in alt.angst‎^[6] (Usenet):

     It will be a story of a few enlightened who combat the nearly unseatable moguls of today, never mind how much we are socially reinforced to pretend to like them, or financially inhibited (who likes to lose their job or be unable to house their family) to speak out against them.