unprocurable
/ʌnpɹəˈkjʊəɹəb(ə)l/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It is clear, for instance, in Central Africa, where copper and tin were unprocurable, that man must first have used iron."
- "We have been told in many plaintive articles and letters in the London press that servants nowadays are almost unprocurable, and even the best people are having to shut up part of their houses and live in one floor, and so on."
- "Diodorus Siculus bears out this, and states that the goat was made a god on account of its genital member and lasciviousness. Where a goat was unprocurable, the image of a human phallus of extravagent [sic] dimensions was erected in the temple and worshipped."
- "But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick or certain poison, were completely unprocurable."
Etymology
From un- + procurable.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ʌnpɹəˈkjʊəɹəb(ə)l/