nonacquirable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not acquirable; unacquirable.
Example Sentences
- "She therefore concludes that 'there will be aspects of the TL [target language] that will be 'nonacquirable ( 160 ) ."
- "From this version of nature, in which the cold eradication oof useless variations was a necessary part of the striving for perfection, the Nazis dredged up such "natural laws" as the principle that "every action of the human being rests upon inalienable and nonacquirable hereditary characteristics.""
- ""Taste" tends to suggest a nonacquirable, probably inborn, and possibly aristocratic “je-ne-sais-quoi,” recalling the values of salon culture rather than those of an upstart proto-intelligent like Belinsky, for whom the pedagogical mission of criticism was of overriding importance."
Etymology
From non- + acquirable.