unputdownable
/ˌənˌpʊtˈdaʊnəb(ə)l/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a book or other written work: so captivating or engrossing that one cannot bear to stop reading it.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "I have known an operating surgeon, because he possessed a medical title, to be elected physician to a county hospital. I have known the surgical staff for years refuse to recognize this irregular. Yet, after all, when he became popular and unputdownable, giving in their isolated adhesions to the conqueror, not because they had altered their sentiments, but that their pockets taught them, like nature, to abhor a vacuum."
- "Finally, we appeal to all right-minded playgoers. Let them remember that they have got tongues, and that a vigorous, unmistakeable, un-put-downable hiss is, in a theatre, a potent instrument."
- "[W]e're unputdownable, like Alcayaga said up 'til last night, and now here we all are happy, unputdownable, dearest old skinny bosom-buddy, you've collapsed on us so early in the morning like a sack of spuds, [...]"
- "Des Capper blinked, as if he has been hit with a dictionary. But he was unputdownable, at the same time giving the impression that he was registering all the snubs."
- "Only someone with enormous unputdownable optimism would ever have embarked on a project like this."
- "But she also remembers Phillips as someone who ‘people liked to be a bit scornful of, the kind of man they would like to put down, although he was unputdownable’."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌənˌpʊtˈdaʊnəb(ə)l/
- British English: /(ˌ)ʌnpʊtˈdaʊnəb(ə)l/
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