单词 | unclassable |
释义 | unclassableadj. That cannot be assigned to a particular class or category; impossible to categorize. ΚΠ 1836 F. Trollope Paris & Parisians I. lxviii. 369 A shop..which débits all those unclassable articles that come under the comprehensive term of haberdashery. 1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. i. 148 Mind remains unclassable and therefore unknowable. 1914 Homiletic Rev. July 75/2 God creates unclassable, unclubable men here. 1948 N.Y. Times 18 Apr. br 16 That unclassable group of American writers..whose work resists evaluation. 2002 Financial Times 7 June 8/7 A politically unclassable figure of the business establishment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1836 |
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