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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

undressable en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From undress + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Capable of being undressed.
    • Suitable toys include wooden bricks, balls, trucks, hammer and pegs, an undressable doll, large cartons for the child to climb in and out of. 1980, Barbara F Weller, Helping sick children play:

undressable en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From un- + dressable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not dressable; not able to be dressed.
    • yet she stopped to dress us in our Sunday clothes , — and it was no sinecure to dress three persistently undressable children 1886, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Men, Women, and Ghosts: