unsaleable
/ˌʌnˈseɪləbl̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not sellable.
Example Sentences
- "Rita was drifting about the shop one morning, and had stopped to meditate glumly over an unsaleable collection of old chairs, when a little old man entered the shop and stopped to eject a loud snort at the chairs, too."
- "After the fully documented records have been made available for study by experts of other railways in a few months' time, the high-powered diesel-hydraulic locomotive might become an increasingly unsaleable commodity in world markets."
- "When Torso, a gay male magazine, arrived at Little Sister's bookstore this month, 42 out of 75 pages had been ripped out of it, making it unsaleable."
Etymology
From un- + saleable.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌʌnˈseɪləbl̩/
- British English: /ˌʌnˈseɪləbl̩/
Inflected Forms
more unsaleable (comparative)
most unsaleable (superlative)
unsalable (alternative)
unsaleables (plural)