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unabbreviable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + abbreviable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That cannot be abbreviated.
    • - - - in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis. 1961, Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, published 2000, →ISBN, page 74:

Synonyms

unabbreviatable

Translations (1)

fi lyhentämiskelvoton (that cannot be abbreviated)