Meanings
adjectiveunabbreviable (not comparable)
- not comparableThat cannot be abbreviated.
- - - in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.
1961, Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, published 2000, →ISBN, page 74Synonyms: unabbreviatable
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adjectiveThat cannot be abbreviated.
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Finnish lyhentämiskelvoton
- lyhentämiskelvotonthat cannot be abbreviated
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APA
unabbreviable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unabbreviable
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“unabbreviable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unabbreviable. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
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