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unsharable

unsharable

5.4
Other people cannot give or use it
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈʃɛrəbəl/
translation icon : incompartible
  • Only then could my father begin to share that which was previously unsharable.

Examples

  • He had a secret that was unsharable, something he wanted to keep just for himself.

  • The sovereignty of each state is an integral whole that is indivisible and unsharable.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Still unsharable, yet the question of its sharing is raised before the unreal: "If we did hear a voice other than our own through our throat, we would be terrified."

    Academic text (1998)
  • In fact, those women historians who come from a "historic" feminist experience make use of a language, or rather a jargon, that is often cryptic, one alien to us because it implies the experience lived by other women who are not like us; thus, its very language ensures that it remains unsharable.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Her feelings about the situation were deeply personal and unsharable with anyone else.

  • The artist believed that the meaning behind her work was unsharable and could only be understood on a personal level.

Synonyms

uncommunicable
vsunsharable
8.1

Something that you cannot explain or share with other people

is about being impossible to make available to others
undisclosable
vsunsharable
6.9

You cannot share this information with people outside a company

is about being impossible to make available to others

Antonyms

1 3.4

Made so several people can divide and eat it, like a dish

How Shareable

public
1.0
shareable
  • Texting
2 3.5
private
1.8
unsharable
5.4

Surface Forms

unsharable positive

Morphology

unsharable = shareable (transparent) = un + share + able

A standard negative prefix 'un-' is attached to the adjective 'shareable' (share + -able), yielding 'not able to be shared', which is directly derivable.

Etymology

Unsharable is made from the parts un- meaning 'not', share meaning 'give or use with others', and -able meaning 'able to be'. So, unsharable means 'not able to be shared', which is why we use it for things you cannot share with others.