Meanings
- not comparableNot insurable; unable to be insured.
“We’re not in a crisis yet, but all of the trends are in a bad direction,” said Dave Jones, who is completing his eighth and final year as California’s insurance commissioner. “We’re slowly marching toward a world that’s uninsurable.”
2018 November 20, Mary Williams Walsh, “How Wildfires Are Making Some California Homes Uninsurable”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
plural uninsurables
- A person or thing that cannot be insured.
So-called uninsurables are a rapidly diminishing group, according to the Institute of Life Insurance. Persons who cannot qualify for life insurance are becoming fewer every year, the organization said yesterday.
1960 July 20, “Few Uninsurable in the Jet Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot capable of being insured or not eligible to be insured
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-
- Englishinsure
- Englishinsurable
- Englishuninsurable
Translations
Czech nepojistitelný
- nepojistitelnýnot insurable
Dutch onverzekerbaar
- onverzekerbaarnot insurable
French inassurable
- inassurablenot insurable
German unversicherbar
- unversicherbarnot insurable
Cite this entry
uninsurable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninsurable
“uninsurable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninsurable. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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