unmentionable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + mentionable.
Adjective
[edit]unmentionable (comparative more unmentionable, superlative most unmentionable)
- Too embarrassing or shocking to be discussed.
- Antonym: mentionable
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]too embarrassing or shocking to be discussed
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Noun
[edit]unmentionable (plural unmentionables)
- Something not to be discussed in polite society.
- 1983 December 10, Mary F. Miller, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 19:
- I'm a lesbian female, 20 years old and my most outstanding features are my pierced unmentionable and my eyes.
- 1995, Virginia Schroeder Burnham, William H. Hampton, Since Time Began, page 43:
- He was taught from childhood that the world does not condone homosexuality and that it is an unmentionable of decent people.
- 2014, Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma, page 100:
- Here, after all, was the circle round which Forster passed the manuscript of his novel Maurice which conveyed so much about being 'an unmentionable of the Oscar Wilde sort'.
Further reading
[edit]- “unmentionable”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “unmentionable”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “unmentionable” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.