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🤝 Impossible to repay 📦 Cannot be sent back 🔥 Cannot be undone
unreturnable

unreturnable

1 4.2
Not able to be sent back to the store or seller
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌn.rɪˈtɜrn.ə.bəl/
translation icon : no retornable
  • All these letters are hopeless, lost, undeliverable, unreturnable.

Examples

  • The gift was unreturnable, so she decided to keep it instead.

  • He put both kicks deep in the end zone, with the second being unreturnable.

    Blog text (29)

  • He went to the new portable TV, still in residence and now unreturnable, to watch the morning news while he dressed.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Due to the damage, the product was classified as unreturnable.

  • Once opened, the software package was unreturnable and couldn't be exchanged.

Synonyms

nonreturnable
vsunreturnable
1 5.1

Not able to be returned to the seller for a refund or exchange

is about items that cannot be returned to their original place or person

Antonyms

returnable
3 2.3

An item you can take back to a shop to get money or to use again

How Returnable

returnable
3 2.3
unreturnable
1 4.2

Surface Forms

unreturnable positive

Morphology

unreturnable = returnable (transparent) = un + return + able

Literal negation of 'returnable' (e.g., in retail contexts), directly derivable from the components.

Etymology

Unreturnable is made of un- 'not', return 'give back', and -able 'can'. So it means 'not able to be given back', which is why shops call some items unreturnable when they will not accept them back.