unrehabilitatable

adjective

Not capable of being rehabilitated.

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Meanings

adjectiveunrehabilitatable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot capable of being rehabilitated.

    As I will show, the fearsome specter of the superpredator—the unrehabilitatable, nonwhite criminal—provided a necessary foil to the imperiled white, heterosexual, suburban, middle-class boys who were the victims and perpetrators of a school shooting epidemic.

    2014, Julie Passanante Elman, Chronic Youth: Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation

Origin

From un- + rehabilitatable.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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