Dictionary

unbrookable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + brook + -able; analysable as un- + brookable.

Meanings

1. Not to be brooked or borne; intolerable.
   • The original document was in what is known as Hanno O’Nonhanno’s unbrookable script, that is to say, it showed no signs of punctuation of any sort. 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 123:
   • Having keenly felt the degradation of his race, and possibly experienced some outrageous act of injustice, or an unbrookable and unforgivable insult, his flashing eyes are immoveably directed toward the King […] 1844, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine:

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unbrookably