单词 | unreproducible |
释义 | unreproducibleadj.n. Incapable of being reproduced. Also as n. with the: that which cannot be reproduced. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > originality or non-imitation > [adjective] > incapable of being imitated inimitable1531 unshadowable1640 unrenderable1827 inimitative1835 unforgeable1837 unlikenable1845 unreproducible1845 uncopiable1846 unrepeatable1846 1845 Athenæum 5 July 666/1 That lucid tint and vivid lustre which..is quite unreproducible by mortal pencil. 1880 G. Smith Cowper vi. 92 It belongs to an unreproducible past. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 18 May 371/1 Desperate efforts to reproduce the unreproducible. 1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 225 An unreproducible sniff..rounded the retort. 1911 J. D. Beresford Early Hist. Jacob Stahl xx. 254 The details of a night's adventure which is for the most part unreproducible. 1983 P. Rose Parallel Lives 14 Conditions I would have thought unreproducible today..turn out to have been reproduced in the lives of people I know. 2013 Australian (Nexis) 11 Apr. (World section) 8 It is an unreproducible collection, something museum directors only dream about. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1845 |
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