unclockable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
At a time that cannot be measured or identified.
adj
Being undetectably homosexual.
adj
Not recognizable as transgender or a drag performer; passing.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Oddy also claims that any car you intend to buy almost certainly has a genuine mileage as complicated electronics make them famously unclockable."
- "Sam McDowell had come over from the San Francisco Giants on the same day, and the left-hander with the host of personal problems and unclockable fastball was still on the roster, always a threat to live up to his immense talent."
- "Sharon can take off at unclockable speeds and be racing down the highway before the guys have shifted into fourth."
- "Thanks to the internet, the American language seems to be exploding at an almost unclockable pace."
- "Yet here’s the more pervasive problem: I don’t buy the logic that a single race as Saratoga is unclockable when every week, at tracks all across the country, races are being “silently” contested with skewed fractional and final times, largely because of ambiguous “about” distances, clocking equipment malfunctions, human errors, and ever-changing timing beam run-ups that vary not only from track to track, but from race to race over the same courses."
- "With these protracted and unclockable events, a moment or date may be given when the goal has certainly not yet been reached, and another when it certainly has ; but it is impossible to come any closer to an exact moment within that period."
Etymology
From un- + clockable.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un-
Inflected Forms
more unclockable (comparative)
most unclockable (superlative)