Meanings
comparative more unmarketable · superlative most unmarketable
- Not marketable.
"Good Lord! oh, Lord! Why, my dear sir, what duty do you owe to the public? The only duty you owe is to me, your publisher! It is your duty to write what will sell, and I tell you reasons are unmarketable commodities."
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 14
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot fit for sale
adjectivenot capable of being sold
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-
- Englishmarketable
- Englishunmarketable
From un- + marketable.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish markkinakelvoton
- markkinakelvotonnot marketable
French incommercialisable
- incommercialisablenot marketable
Norwegian uselgelig
- uselgelignot marketable
Cite this entry
unmarketable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmarketable
“unmarketable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmarketable. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmarketable,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmarketable.
Source: unmarketable on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.