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unhandleable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + handleable.

Meanings

1. That cannot be handled.
   • I confide a little of this – my new, unhandle-able worry – and he recommends I read The Metamorphosis by Kafka (Bantam Classics, 1972). 2014, Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ebury, published 2015, page 43:
   • The difficulty of controlling the size and distribution of such defects leads to a spread of strengths obtained from an otherwise identical set of test bars, and it is partly this lack of an equivalent to the relatively consistent yield stress or ultimate tensile strength of metals that has resulted in the dubbing of ceramics as unreliable and unhandlable. 1982, W. E. Creyke, I.E. Sainsbury, R. Morrell, Design with Non-Ductile Materials, page 36:

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