unsustainable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ sustainable.

Adjective

unsustainable (comparative more unsustainable, superlative most unsustainable)

1. Not sustainable.
   • 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:

     You don't have to be Einstein to work out that this level of government subsidy is unsustainable.

   • 2022 July 4, Ben Schott, “Is There Anything That Gen Z Won’t Drink?”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     RTDs cover a multitude of sips, including: “hard” or “spiked” teas, coffees, kombuchas and seltzers; […] . And although the sector was birthed in the ’30s by drinks like Campari Soda, and boomed in the ’90s with Bacardi Breezer and Smirnoff Ice, RTDs are now at a point of seemingly unsustainable saturation.

Translations

Not sustainable

• Catalan: insostenible
• Finnish: kestämätön
• French: pas viable, non viable, pas tenable, intenable (fr)
• Hungarian: fenntarthatatlan
• Italian: insostenibile (it)
• Norwegian: ikke bærekraftig
• Polish: niezrównoważony (pl)
• Swedish: ohållbar (sv)