unarchivable

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adjective

Incapable of being archived.

OriginEnglish archivable ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
Scrabble 22
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Meanings

adjectiveunarchivable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIncapable of being archived.

    The photograph isolates a moment in time and engraves what would otherwise be an ephemeral instant, unarchivable.

    2002, Mary Ann Doane, The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive, page 102

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englisharchivable
  9. Englishunarchivable

From un- + archivable.

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APA

unarchivable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unarchivable

MLA

“unarchivable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unarchivable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unarchivable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unarchivable.

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