unenterable

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adjective

That cannot be entered.

OriginEnglish enterable ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

adjectiveunenterable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat cannot be entered.

    There is no aesthetic distance here separating actors from audience and placing the depicted events in an unenterable world of illusion...

    1973, Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
entranceless

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. Englishenterable
  9. Englishunenterable

From un- + enterable.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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