unstemmable

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adjective

That cannot be stemmed; being an unstoppable flood.

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Meanings

adjectiveunstemmable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat cannot be stemmed; being an unstoppable flood.
    1 more example

    Mary takes in a screening of Niagara the day she learns she's carrying Ray's baby, and this is only one of many watery images that flow through the book's roiling currents: Bell's struggle with the lake's waves, the unstemmable surges of illicit passion, the rains that come to carry everything in its path.

    2009 September 6, Geoff Pevere, “The human wreckage of the great blow of '54”, in Toronto Star

Origin

From un- + stem + -able.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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