unalertable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ alertable.

Adjective

unalertable (comparative more unalertable, superlative most unalertable)

1. Not alertable; unresponsive to attempts to alert.
   • 1972, Rohit Mehta, From Mind to Super-mind: A Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, page 206:

     It would, if the motivating factors for such perception of the unalertable nature of facts are either self-justification or self-pity.

   • 1978, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates: Official Report - Volume 950, page dlxxv:

     Unfortunately, the Secretary of State was unalertable.

   • 1994, AnnMari Jansson, Monica Hammer, Carl Folke, Investing in Natural Capital: The Ecological Economics, page 41:

     Those who are unalertable will likely continue to consider externalities a minor problem, believe in perpetual motion machines, 100% recycling, and eternal growth, and otherwise act as if the laws of nature did not exist (Beckerman 1992).

See also

• nonalertable

Anagrams

• unalterable, unrelatable