unlocatable

comparative more unlocatable · superlative most unlocatable

1. Not locatable; impossible to locate.

   In this case it appears to have been randomly applied, like bandages on an unlocatable wound.

   2007 May 17, Holland Cotter, “Leaving Her Mark, Sometimes With Tape”, in New York Times

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   As work on the assignment progressed, students found that many of the terms they first selected proved unlocatable in English-language contexts, and were only found in Cantonese contexts[.]

   2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 148