Meanings
comparative more unforgivable · superlative most unforgivable · alternative unforgiveable
- Not forgivable; inexcusable.
People who smuggle artifacts, blood diamonds and ivory trinkets on the black market are unforgivable in my mind.
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Since unforgivable acts lie in one's positive use of freedom to undo creation—to uncreate—and to make flawed what has been deemed worthy of existence—to unredeem—then the unforgiving act is addressed to oneself and to the cosmos.
2008, Martin Joseph Matuštík, Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations, →ISBNSynonyms: inexcusable, unpardonable, unremittable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot forgivable; inexcusable.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot excusable
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishforgivable
- Englishunforgivable
From un- + forgivable.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic لَا يُغْتَفَرُ
- لَا يُغْتَفَرُ (lā yuḡtafaru)not forgivable
Bengali অমার্জনীয়
- অমার্জনীয় (ômarjôniô)not forgivable
Bulgarian непрости́м, непрости́телен
- непрости́м (neprostím)not forgivable
- непрости́телен (neprostítelen)not forgivable
Catalan imperdonable
- imperdonablenot forgivable
Chinese Mandarin 不可原諒 /不可原谅, 不能原諒的 /不能原谅的
- 不可原諒 /不可原谅 (bùkě yuánliàng)not forgivable
- 不能原諒的 /不能原谅的 (bù néng yuánliàng de)not forgivable
Czech neodpustitelný
- neodpustitelnýnot forgivable
Danish utilgivelig
- utilgivelignot forgivable
Dutch onvergeeflijk
- onvergeeflijknot forgivable
Esperanto nepardonebla
- nepardoneblanot forgivable
Finnish anteeksiantamaton
- anteeksiantamatonnot forgivable
French impardonnable
- impardonnablenot forgivable
German unverzeihlich, unentschuldbar
- unverzeihlichnot forgivable
- unentschuldbarnot forgivable
Greek ασυγχώρητος
- ασυγχώρητος (asynchóritos)not forgivable
Hungarian megbocsáthatatlan
- megbocsáthatatlannot forgivable
Icelandic ófyrirgefanlegur
- ófyrirgefanlegurnot forgivable
Italian imperdonabile
- imperdonabilenot forgivable
Japanese 許されない
- 許されない (yurusarenai)not forgivable
Korean 용서할 수 없다, 용서하지 못하다
- 용서할 수 없다 (yongseohal su eopda)not forgivable
- 용서하지 못하다 (yongseoha-ji mothada)not forgivable
Lithuanian nedovanotinas
- nedovanotinasnot forgivable
Norwegian Bokmål utilgivelig
- utilgivelignot forgivable
Polish niewybaczalny
- niewybaczalnynot forgivable
Portuguese imperdoável
- imperdoávelnot forgivable
Romanian de nescuzat, de neiertat
- de nescuzatnot forgivable
- de neiertatnot forgivable
- impardonabilnot forgivable
- neiertabilnot forgivable
- nescuzabilnot forgivable
Russian непрости́тельный
- непрости́тельный (neprostítelʹnyj)not forgivable
Slovak neodpustiteľný
- neodpustiteľnýnot forgivable
Spanish imperdonable
- imperdonablenot forgivable
Swedish oförlåtlig
- oförlåtlignot forgivable
Ukrainian непроба́чний, непрости́мий
- непроба́чний (neprobáčnyj)not forgivable
- непрости́мий (neprostýmyj)not forgivable
- невиба́чний (nevybáčnyj)not forgivable
- непроще́нний (neproščénnyj)not forgivable
Cite this entry
unforgivable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unforgivable
“unforgivable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unforgivable. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unforgivable,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unforgivable.
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