unsustainableun‧sus‧tain‧a‧ble /ˌʌnsəˈsteɪnəbəl/ AWL adjective - Instead, successive presidents continued to promise prosperity and to dole out unsustainable subsidies.
- Maybe the age of leisure will turn out to be a brief and unsustainable interlude rather than a new dawn after all.
- Nurse education and training at Horton would be likely to become unsustainable without a sufficient variety of placements for students.
- Past policies favouring over-valued currencies have proved unsustainable.
- Self-determination has, as Lansing predicted all those years ago, raised hopes to an unsustainable level.
- While the number of levels has endured, the rationale turned out to be unsustainable.
nounsustenancesustainabilityadjectivesustainable ≠ unsustainableverbsustain