uncheatable

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adjective

Not subject to cheating, impossible to cheat (at).

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveuncheatable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot subject to cheating, impossible to cheat (at).

    We show that the signer can disavow any valid signature to the verifier. In other words, we show that the disavowal of their scheme is not uncheatable.

    2005, Song Han, Elizabeth Chang, Jie Wang, “Attack on Undeniable Partially Blind Signatures”, in Andrew Blyth, editor, EC2ND 2005: Proceedings Of The First European Conference on Computer Network Defence, School Of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, Birkhäuser, published 2006, →ISBN, page 143
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    Amoz Zahavi^([sic]) argued, however, that natural selection should favor signals that cannot be cheated.³² Uncheatable signals carry a cost, a handicap.

    2002, George W. Barlow, The Cichlid Fishes: Nature’s Grand Experiment In Evolution, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 100

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. Englishcheat
  9. Englishuncheatable

From un- + cheat + -able.

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APA

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

MLA

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Chicago

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

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