Unseatable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not seatable; unable to sit or be seated. not-comparable

    "The one time I got called for Jury Duty, it was great: / -I worked for a Newspaper. / -I had long hair with a dyed blonde streak. / -My Mom was in litigation over a hit & run. / I was completely unseatable."

  2. 2
    Able to be unseated (in various senses). not-comparable

    "The Anglo-Saxon tradition, deriving from Hooker, Locke, Bentham, Mill, is prone to look upon popular will as a peculiarly unseatable tyrant unless it finds practical expression in forms which safeguard the rights and free choice of the individual."

  3. 3
    Not unseatable; unable to be unseated. nonstandard, not-comparable

    "With the analyst, Joan was searching for a worthy, unseatable replacement for her parents."

Example

More examples

"The one time I got called for Jury Duty, it was great: / -I worked for a Newspaper. / -I had long hair with a dyed blonde streak. / -My Mom was in litigation over a hit & run. / I was completely unseatable."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From un- + seatable (“able to be seated”).

Etymology 2

From unseat + -able.

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