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unrepeatable

unrepeatable

1 5.8
Something that cannot happen again or should not be said again
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌn.rɪˈpiː.tə.bəl/
translation icon : irrepetible
  • The act of communication, the unrepeatable instance of utterance, is the distinctive feature of canto popular.
  • unique and unrepeatable
  • unrepeatable history
  • unrepeatable person

Your life is an unprecedented and unrepeatable experiment.

Examples

  • She created an unrepeatable piece of art that captured the essence of her emotions.

  • For most students, college represents four unrepeatable years when they can devote themselves to "the best that has been thought and said."

    Academic text (1999)

  • The term I normally would use is unrepeatable in polite company.

    Blog text (25)

  • Your life is an unprecedented and unrepeatable experiment.

    Evan Carmichael

  • We came here to be ourselves, our extraordinary, unrepeatable selves.

    Blog text (17)

  • For always, in being born, someone singular and unrepeatable in his bodily existence appears in the world.

    Academic text (1995)

  • We are in touch with an unrepeatable center of consciousness, love, and freedom, a center that we cannot adequately conceptualize or classify.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The zealotry that characterized the Popular Front, the capture-the-flag fervor that ended up embedded in our popular culture, is an unrepeatable phenomenon.

    Academic text (2011)

  • According to scriptural teaching, humans are unique persons, "unrepeatable" in the history of the world, and therefore not under the law of "transmigration" as Buddhism teaches.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The drama is always unrepeatable because the leading actor—the victim, for Arasse—can perform only once (114).

    Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

irreproducible
vsunrepeatable
1 9.6

Not possible to repeat exactly

is about uniqueness or being unsuitable to be said again rather than technical impossibility
unreproducible
vsunrepeatable
  • Specialized
1 9.5

Cannot be made again in the same way

is used for uniqueness or things not fit to be said again
uncopyable
vsunrepeatable
1 8.1

So unique that no one can make the same thing

can mean uniqueness or being unsuitable to be said again rather than copying difficulty
unduplicated
vsunrepeatable
1 6.5

Not copied or repeated so there is only one version

is about being unique rather than about technical inability to make it again
nonreproducible
vsunrepeatable
  • Specialized
8.6

Not able to be copied or repeated

is broader, also covering items that are unique or unfit to be said again
unquotable
vsunrepeatable
8.0

Too rude or shocking for people to repeat in polite company

is broader, covering both uniqueness and being unsuitable to be said again

Antonyms

repeatable
9 4.2

Safe to say again in front of other people

How Repeatable

repeatable
9 4.2
unrepeatable
1 5.8
one-off
8 5.6

Surface Forms

unrepeatable positive

Morphology

unrepeatable = repeatable (transparent) = un + repeat + able

The word 'unrepeatable' is transparently derived from 'repeatable' by adding the prefix 'un-', indicating negation.

Etymology

Unrepeatable starts with un- meaning 'not' and the part repeat meaning 'do or say again'. So, unrepeatable describes something that cannot be done or said again, either because it is 'one-of-a-kind' or because it would be wrong to repeat.