undoable

Examples

• All

• Anything else was really undoable.

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• Could you have envisioned a future like this with computers recording and undoable edits and and comping things?

• Here, this could be range from undoable to difficult.

• And if in this case we have found three years later that what the people have asked us to do is simply undoable, that is to leave the European Union and make things better.

• I do agree that it does seem quite easy for him to go along a few years later or land outside of New York to be able to see them again, but taking them back to the future would be too undoable.

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• it was a chunk of change, but it was not undoable.

  Runaway (2005)

• A large capex by itself doesn't make such projects undoable.

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• Todd Stern, the US Special Envoy on Climate Change, has just managed the undoable: making the climate negotiations newsworthy in the middle of an Olympic-heavy summer.

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• But I don't understand why we should settle for second-best, when nobody—and I mean nobody—has demonstrated that best is undoable or unachievable.

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• Many believe that tackling climate change seems almost undoable without global cooperation.

Synonyms

U

unattainable

vsundoable

18 6.3

Not possible to get or reach

covers any action that cannot be completed or carried out

U

unsolvable

vsundoable

8 5.3

Not possible to find an answer

applies to any task or act that cannot be done

U

unfeasible

vsundoable

4 6.8

Not possible to do or make work

applies more generally to anything impossible to do

U

unachievable

vsundoable

3 6.3

Not possible to do or reach

is the general term for something that cannot be done

I

insuperable

vsundoable

• Formal

2 9.1

So hard that no one can get past it

is broader, applying to any item that cannot be done

I

infeasible

vsundoable

2 7.2

Not possible to do or make happen

describes plain impossibility rather than mere lack of practicality

U

unsoluble

vsundoable

9.4

Not able to be fixed or changed

is the broad impossibility term not limited to problems

U

unfinishable

vsundoable

6.6

Impossible to finish

is about inability to do something, not only failure to finish

Antonyms

D

doable

51 1.8

Possible to finish with effort

A

achievable

33 3.2

Can be done successfully

How Possible

possible

∞ 1.0

difficult

∞ 1.6

unlikely

487 1.9

undoable

1 4.9

impossible

∞ 1.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology