unpublishable
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7.5
- adjective
- /ʌnˈpʌblɪʃəbl/
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no publicable
- But what if you feel that a client's decisions are so bad that they render a book unpublishable?
- unpublishable novel
I, you know, spent well over a decade writing unpublishable novels before I transition to writing unproducible screenplays.
- I, you know, spent well over a decade writing unpublishable novels before I transition to writing unproducible screenplays.
Examples
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They assume that most of the stuff that crosses their desks will be unpublishable.
Academic text (2009) -
Animal Farm is a given now; then it was almost unpublishable.
Blog text (28) -
If all the data were removed from the manuscript, it would probably become unpublishable.
Academic text (2013) -
The same book that wound up winning the International Latino Book Award as Best Young Adult Novel was the same manuscript deemed "unsatisfactory" (or in the parlance of my contract, "an unpublishable product.")
Blog text (19) -
The professor deemed the essay unpublishable due to its lack of original ideas.
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Because the manuscript contained several factual inaccuracies, it was considered unpublishable.
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Her controversial opinions made the article unpublishable in many reputable journals.
Synonyms
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7.7
Too rude or offensive to be printed
Antonyms
How Publishable
Surface Forms
Morphology
unpublishable = publishable (transparent) = un + publish + able
The word is formed by adding the productive negative prefix 'un-' to 'publishable', so the meaning 'not able/suitable to be published' follows directly.
Etymology
Unpublishable is made of three parts: un- meaning 'not', publish meaning 'to make public', the same idea as public, and -able meaning 'able to'. So unpublishable literally means 'not able to be made public', which is why we use it for writing that is not fit to be published.