Meanings
adjectiveunbiddable (comparative more unbiddable, superlative most unbiddable)
comparative more unbiddable · superlative most unbiddable
- Not biddable
No … not the artful postures of love, but love that overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love like there has never been in a play.
1998, Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare in Love, New York: Hyperion, page 21
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishbiddable
- Englishunbiddable
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APA
unbiddable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbiddable
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“unbiddable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbiddable. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unbiddable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbiddable.
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