unreturnable

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adjective

That is not able to be returned.

OriginEnglish returnable ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
Scrabble 14
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Meanings

adjectiveunreturnable (comparative more unreturnable, superlative most unreturnable)

comparative more unreturnable · superlative most unreturnable

  1. That is not able to be returned.

    But for Native people in this country, all over the Americas, it’s been developed over, buried ancestral land, glass and concrete and wire and steel, unreturnable covered memory.

    2018, Tommy Orange, There There, Harvill Secker, page 39
  2. That is not designed to be returned; nonreturnable.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
irreturnable

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. Englishreturnable
  9. Englishunreturnable

From un- + returnable.

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Cite this entry
APA

unreturnable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreturnable

MLA

“unreturnable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreturnable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unreturnable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreturnable.

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