untraceable

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adjective

Not able to be traced or tracked down.

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveuntraceable (comparative more untraceable, superlative most untraceable)

comparative more untraceable · superlative most untraceable

  1. Not able to be traced or tracked down.

    Then there is bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has been skyrocketing in value lately. Bitcoin is basically virtual cash — anonymous, untraceable currency stuffed into a mobile wallet.

    2013 November 17, Nick Bilton, “Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2022
    1 more example

    The core idea of the Nostega paradign is basically camouflaging messages by embedding them in a form of noiseless data by employing either altered authenticated data or legitimate untraceable data, as shown in Section 1.3.

    2016, Abdelrahman Desoky, Noiseless Steganography, page 4

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveincapable of being traced or tracked down

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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. Englishtrace
  9. Englishtraceable
  10. Englishuntraceable

From un- + traceable.

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Translations

Bulgarian непроследим
  • непроследим (neprosledim)not able to be traced
Italian non tracciabile, irrintracciabile
  • non tracciabilenot able to be traced
  • irrintracciabilenot able to be traced
  • irreperibilenot able to be traced
Romanian netrasabil, nereperabil
  • netrasabilnot able to be traced
  • nereperabilnot able to be traced
Turkish izi sürülemez
  • izi sürülemeznot able to be traced

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APA

untraceable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untraceable

MLA

“untraceable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untraceable. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “untraceable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untraceable.

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