unbeholdable

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adjective

Not beholdable; unable to be beheld.

OriginEnglish beholdable ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveunbeholdable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot beholdable; unable to be beheld.

    This enormous ring of ordinary environments dwarfs the conventional centralized city. Its scale alone resists easy comprehension, and its spatial indeterminacy intensifies the effect of encountering the unbeholdable

    2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19

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. Englishbeholdable
  9. Englishunbeholdable

From un- + beholdable.

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APA

unbeholdable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbeholdable

MLA

“unbeholdable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbeholdable. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unbeholdable,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbeholdable.

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