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🚫 Cannot burn 🗑️ Non-burnable trash
unburnable

unburnable

6.7
Things that cannot or should not be burned, like glass and metal
  • noun
  • /ʌnˈbɜrnəbl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : material incombustible
  • Please put all unburnable in the blue bin for non-combustible waste collection.

Examples

  • The city provides special bags for unburnable to help with recycling and waste management.

  • Glass and metal are considered unburnable and must be disposed of separately.

  • The recycling center accepts unburnable materials.

  • He sorted the trash into unburnable and combustible items.

  • Please put all unburnable waste in the blue bin for non-combustible refuse collection.

  • Glass and metal are categorized as unburnable materials and must be disposed of separately.

  • The recycling center accepts items labeled as unburnable for proper disposal.

Surface Forms

unburnable singular
unburnables plural

Morphology

unburnable = burnable (transparent) = un + burn + able

The meaning is a straightforward negation of 'burnable', so the relationship is easy to recover from the parts.

Etymology

The word unburnable is made of un- 'not' and burnable 'able to burn'. As a noun it means items that are 'not able to burn', like glass and metal, which must be put in special bins rather than burned.