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uncrackable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English crackable English uncrackable From un- + crackable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a code) That cannot be cracked; unbreakable.
  2. (not-comparable, of a safe) That cannot be broken into.
    • I may as well inform you that no crib is really uncrackable, though the Cyrus J. Coy Co.'s Safe Deposit on West 24th Street, N.Y., comes nearest the kernel. 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

Translations (2)

de unbrechbar (of a code: that cannot be cracked, unbreakable) · de unknackbar (of a code: that cannot be cracked, unbreakable)