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unborrowable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + borrowable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not borrowable.
    • This area of seemingly unborrowable words is much more extensive than is generally realized. 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 163: