inenubilable
/ˌɪnɪˈnjubɪləbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
6
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As blue and gray go the clouds / Round and about, turning forever / Upon this focus which is the ineluctable you / This minute, this hour, this day, this afternoon that is forever, / Under this never inenubilable sky."
- "Our blue inenubilable Zembla, and the red-capped Steinmann, and the motorboat in the sea cave, and—"
- "They go, but are overwhelmed by an avalanche, while the wife and the huntsman escape unharmed. This business of the avalanche is treated by the critics as something quite inenubilable. Yet what could be plainer than [Henrik] Ibsen's meaning?"
- "For there is nothing in England to be matched with what lurks in the vapours of these meadows, and in the shadows of these spires—that mysterious, inenubilable spirit, spirit of Oxford."
- "But for some inenubilable reasons, it is not the law that he may lawfully arrest a guilty person whom the court opines he had not reasonable ground to suspect."
- "[(...] it may be simply inenubilable, not merely because the ontological difference cannot be bridged by analogy or equivocation, identity or difference or sameness, but also because the means appropriate for an analytic of Dasein may not function for being, or because the results of one investigation may not apply to the other—just as results in vitro don't always apply in vivo, just as Plato's task in the Republic of finding justice in the soul by searching for it in the city may be doomed to failure)."
Etymology
From English in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + Latin ēnūbilāre (“to clear of clouds or mist; (figurative) to clear of obscurity”) + English -able (suffix meaning ‘able to be done’ forming adjectives), possibly coined by the English critic and essayist Max Beerbohm (1872–1956): see the 1903 and 1911 quotations below. By surface analysis, in- + e- + Latin nubil- + -able. Ēnūbilāre is derived from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix denoting privation)) + nūbilus (“cloudy, overcast; (figurative) beclouded, confused, troubled”) (from nūbēs (“cloud; (figurative) concealment, obscurity”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”)) + -āre.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *(s)newdʰ-, ēnūbilāre
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɪnɪˈnjubɪləbəl/
- British English: /ˌɪnɪˈnjuːbɪləb(ə)l/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more inenubilable (comparative)
most inenubilable (superlative)