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Definition of "unpronounceable" []

  • Difficult or impossible to pronounce correctly: an unpronounceable last name. (adjective)
  • Not fit to be mentioned. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unpronounceable" in a sentence
  • ""Mademoiselle Güldmar, if anything happens to me at this cascade with the name unpronounceable, you will again be my doctor, will you not?""
  • "Of course our shipwrecked friend had to retail his story to the woman, and then learned from her that the island was a very large one, with a name unpronounceable by English lips, that it was very thinly inhabited, that it consisted almost entirely of pasture land, and that "the laird" owned a large portion of it, including the little fishing village of"
  • "•Some Koreans may mistake your first name for your last name or find your last name unpronounceable and address you by English courtesy title + first name."