unhittable

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adjective

Impossible to hit

OriginEnglish hittable ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
Scrabble 15
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Meanings

adjectiveunhittable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableImpossible to hit

    Carmona flashed an unhittable pitch as he struck out Ramirez with a 96-mile-an-hour fastball that dived under Ramirez’s hands.

    2007 October 21, Jack Curry, “Unlikely Star Helps Red Sox Force Deciding Game”, in New York Times

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. Englishhittable
  9. Englishunhittable

From un- + hittable.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

untithable
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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