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unpindownable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + pin down + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That cannot be pinned down; elusive; uncapturable.
    • Brilliant, artistic, revolutionary, multi-multi-ethnic and entirely unpindownable Celeste, who moved into our room at the start of freshman year while I was still in transit and decided to make me feel at home in Massachusetts by customizing her reproduction of Che Guevara. 2000, Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron, Bloomsbury, page 77: