unalertable

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adjective

Not alertable; unresponsive to attempts to alert.

Scrabble 13

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adjectiveunalertable (comparative more unalertable, superlative most unalertable)

comparative more unalertable · superlative most unalertable

  1. Not alertable; unresponsive to attempts to alert.

    Unfortunately, the Secretary of State was unalertable.

    1978, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates: Official Report - Volume 950, page dlxxv
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    It would, if the motivating factors for such perception of the unalertable nature of facts are either self-justification or self-pity.

    1972, Rohit Mehta, From Mind to Super-mind: A Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, page 206

    Those who are unalertable will likely continue to consider externalities a minor problem, believe in perpetual motion machines, 100% recycling, and eternal growth, and otherwise act as if the laws of nature did not exist (Beckerman 1992).

    1994, AnnMari Jansson, Monica Hammer, Carl Folke, Investing in Natural Capital: The Ecological Economics, page 41

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