Unrewardable
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 For which no reward can be given.
"If good performance is unmeasurable, and hence unrewardable, why perform?"
- 2 For which no reward would be sufficient.
"For some time, I, in common with many others, considered this fascinating writer as having done an unrewardable service to his age, by the death blow he has given to that host of female scribblers who did much worse than waste the paper […] by their voluminous tomes of sentimental nonsense […]"
Example
More examples"If good performance is unmeasurable, and hence unrewardable, why perform?"
Etymology
From un- + rewardable.
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