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uncheckable

uncheckable

8.5
Impossible to control or stop
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈtʃɛkəbl/
translation icon : incontrolable
  • When he was at home in San Clemente, Deems White was in the habit of leaving his office several times a week, giving one of a hundred reasonable and uncheckable excuses, and driving rapidly to San Diego.

Examples

  • Many online transactions have become uncheckable, raising concerns about fraud and security.

  • If your argument is valid, then the president has found a loophole in the Constitution that makes him above the law or uncheckable by any other branch of the government.

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  • The government implemented new policies to regulate activities that were previously uncheckable.

  • In his report, the auditor highlighted several expenses that were uncheckable due to missing receipts.

Synonyms

uncontrollable
vsuncheckable
47 4.9

Not able to be held back

states absolute impossibility rather than possible difficulty in control
uncontainable
vsuncheckable
2 6.5

Too strong to control, it often makes people laugh loudly or feel great joy

means being impossible to check or restrain rather than merely not staying within limits
uncorrectable
vsuncheckable
1 7.9

Not able to be fixed or controlled

is about being impossible to check or restrain, not just unable to be corrected
noncontrollable
vsuncheckable
7.5

No one can change or affect something like the weather

focuses on absolute impossibility to check or restrain rather than influence
unrestrainable
vsuncheckable
7.5

Too strong to be controlled

means impossible to check or restrain rather than just unable to be held back

Antonyms

1 3.4

Able to be tested and proved using facts

How Controllable

controllable
11 3.2
manageable
57 3.2
unmanageable
12 6.2
uncheckable
8.5

Surface Forms

uncheckable positive

Morphology

uncheckable = checkable (transparent) = un + check + able

Formed by adding un- to 'checkable' (check + -able), producing the straightforward meaning 'not able to be checked'.

Etymology

The word uncheckable breaks into un- 'not', check 'stop or control', and -able 'can be', so it means 'not able to be stopped or controlled'. Think of a train with no brakes or a fire that keeps growing; you cannot stop them, which is why we call something uncheckable.