untransferable
- adjective
- /ˌʌntrænsˈfɜrəbəl/
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no transferible
- Even as he grounds this concept of sin in social anthropology, the pope emphasizes a primarily personal conception of sin, stressing that while an individual may be conditioned by external factors or habits, "sin, in the proper sense, is always a personal act, since it is an act of freedom on the part of an individual person and not properly of a group or community"; at base, "there is nothing so personal and untransferable in each individual as merit for virtue or responsibility for sin." n24
Examples
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Due to company policy, the funds in this account are untransferable to another individual.
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The second characteristic of a dictatorship is that the highest power in the hands of that individual is untransferable.
Academic text (1990) -
The rights to the painting are untransferable and remain with the original artist.
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The warranty on this product is untransferable, meaning it cannot be passed on to a new owner.
Synonyms
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6.6
You cannot give or sell it to another person
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7.3
You cannot return or change it after you buy it
Cannot be given or sold to another person
A duty that cannot be given to another person
Antonyms
How Transferable
Surface Forms
Morphology
untransferable = transferable (transparent) = un + transfer + able
Standard negative prefix 'un-' attached to the adjective 'transferable', producing the predictable negated meaning.
Etymology
The word untransferable breaks into three parts: un- ('not'), transfer ('to move from one person or place to another'), and -able ('able to'). So untransferable simply means 'not able to be moved or given to someone else'.