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unrentable

unrentable

6.0
Something that people cannot pay to use or live in
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈrɛntəbl/
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  • The old factory was considered unrentable due to its poor condition and lack of amenities.

Examples

  • After several inspections, they concluded that the house was unrentable because of its extensive damage.

  • Investors avoided the property, believing it was unrentable in the current market.

  • And the world at large was filled with dead animals, with unrentable apartments, with empty serving bowls and heaps of obsolete machinery, and spatial points where stress in massive quantities made gaps in time, zones where many things could have occurred, and some of them did and some of them didn't.

    Fiction book (1990)

Antonyms

rentable
1 3.2

A thing that can be rented, like a room or car

How Rentable

in demand
36 2.9
rentable
1 3.2
unrentable
6.0

Surface Forms

unrentable positive

Morphology

unrentable = rentable (transparent) = un + rent + able

Formed by adding the productive negative prefix 'un-' to the adjective 'rentable' (able to be rented), so the meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word unrentable breaks into three simple parts: un- meaning 'not', rent as in rental meaning the money or act of renting, and -able meaning 'able to'. So unrentable literally means 'not able to be rented', which is why we call a damaged or unsafe place unrentable.