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uncleanable

uncleanable

1 6.6
Impossible to make clean even with a lot of effort
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈklinəbl/
: imposible de limpiar
  • She realized that the marks on the wall were uncleanable and would require repainting.

Examples

  • After years of use, the carpet in the living room became uncleanable due to numerous stains.

  • The grease on the engine was so baked-on that it seemed uncleanable even with the strongest cleaners.

  • Tacitly, they decided to stay apart, the woman in the kitchen trying to clean the uncleanable pans, the man posted in front of the window trying to see something outside in the unfathomable darkness.

    Fiction book (1992)

Antonyms

cleanable
1 1.0

Easy to wash or wipe to remove dirt

How Cleanable

cleanable
1 1.0
uncleanable
1 6.6

Surface Forms

uncleanable positive

Morphology

uncleanable = cleanable (transparent) = un + clean + able

Built by applying the negative prefix 'un-' to 'cleanable' (clean + -able), a regular and semantically compositional derivation.

Etymology

Uncleanable breaks into un- 'not', clean 'free of dirt', and -able 'able to'. So, it means 'not able to be cleaned', which is why we use it for things that cannot be cleaned no matter how hard you try.