unrepeatableadj.
/ˌʌnrᵻˈpiːtəbl/, U.S. /ˌənrəˈpidəb(ə)l/, /ˌənriˈpidəb(ə)l/ 1. Of words or language: too obscene, salacious, crude, etc., to be repeated.
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the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > strong, sulphurous (of language)
untowen13..
largea1413
thundering1543
viperous1605
luscious1614
peppering1712
rough1750
unquotable1821
sulphurous1828
piercent1829
unrepeatable1831
bituminous1878
sultry1891
unprintable1898
four-letter1923
1831 Standard 26 Oct. 4/1 The duck was never found: strange and unrepeatable stories were told..as to its mysterious disappearance.
1859 W. H. Gregory Egypt II. 47 Droll but somewhat unrepeatable anecdotes.
1887 Punch 19 Mar. 136/2 An account of his most infamous exploits in unrepeatable language.
1923 Outing Mar. 261/3 It took unrepeatable language..and our last drop of restorative to start us on our way.
1988 Times 7 May 11/6 The driver's response, when asked to summon help using his radio, was unrepeatable and he sped off.
2011 B. Norton Two Strangers—One Soul 12 Several choice, if unrepeatable, words of welcome from my team-mates.
2. Impossible to replicate; that cannot occur again.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > originality or non-imitation > [adjective] > incapable of being imitated
inimitable1531
unshadowable1640
unrenderable1827
inimitative1835
unforgeable1837
unlikenable1845
unreproducible1845
uncopiable1846
unrepeatable1846
1846 Illustr. Family Mag. Apr. 47 This one brief unrepeatable chapter of human existence—courtship.
1880 R. F. Littledale Plain Reasons lxxv. 157 The..unrepeatable privilege and glory of being the first to unlock the doors of the kingdom.
1901 G. H. Howison Limits of Evol. 362 The absolutely singular and unrepeatable personality of each soul.
1984 A. Price Sion Crossing ii. 36 It was..an unrepeatable opportunity to establish his credentials.
2009 P. Glennie & N. Thrift Shaping Day iii. 66 Time is..an irreducible stream of unrepeatable events.
Derivatives
ˌunrepeataˈbility n. the quality or state of being unrepeatable.
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1901 Checkmate Aug. 126/1 Many a foreign term mangled to unrepeatability in print.
1986 Nature 13 Mar. 121/1 Leading parapsychologists acknowledge the unrepeatability and admit that no single experiment has been free of error.
2004 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 18 Sept. (Travel section) 1 Cartier-Bresson seizes an instant of self-awareness in his subjects.., or at least an awareness of the unrepeatability of the given moment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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