unpayable
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5.5
- adjective
- /ʌnˈpeɪəbl/
:
impagable
- After the unexpected expenses piled up, she realized her credit card bill was now unpayable.
- unpayable debt
- unpayable bill
Examples
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After World War I, Germany's unpayable reparations bill put forward by the Allies helped to create the chaotic economic conditions that eased the rise of Hitler.
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One of the main reasons people came to America was to escape debts or to acquire land without taking on unpayable debts.
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Since we have the greatest level of unpayable debt in 500 years, we are headed to the worst financial crisis in 500 years.
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Just like the U.S.S.R. at the time, we have unpayable debt.
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Anyway, we'll all soon see what this new Spanish government does for the Spanish people in the form of defaulting on unpayable Spanish debt.
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Say a man spends his life racking up a hell of an unpayable debt.
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With debt to GDP of 160%, we need not wait and realize it is unpayable later, increasing uncertainty.
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Your debt is unpayable.
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Both USG bond issuance and Fed Bank note issuance support a system that obliges money users to unpayable interest and fees to the financial industry.
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As more and more American families are getting wiped out—disappearing jobs, evaporating home equity, unpayable college loans—that belief in perpetually increasing prosperity is gradually starting to change.
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Synonyms
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2.0
Costs more money than someone can afford
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7.9
A price or cost that is much higher than it should be
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6.8
Too expensive for most people to afford
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7.3
Money that cannot be collected from the person who owes it
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6.8
A debt or favor you cannot pay back
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5.3
Impossible to get back money that someone owes
Antonyms
How Payable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unpayable is built from the parts un- 'not', pay, and -able 'able to be', just like payable means 'able to be paid'. So unpayable literally means 'not able to be paid', which helps you remember it describes bills or debts that are too large or impossible to pay.