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unrewardable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + rewardable.

Meanings

1. For which no reward can be given.
   • If good performance is unmeasurable, and hence unrewardable, why perform? 1976, Production and Inventory Management, volumes 17-18, page 118:
2. For which no reward would be sufficient.
   • For some time, I, in common with many others, considered this fascinating writer as having done an unrewardable service to his age, by the death blow he has given to that host of female scribblers who did much worse than waste the paper […] by their voluminous tomes of sentimental nonsense […] 1825, Samuel Lorenzo Knapp, Boston Monthly Magazine, volume 1, number 2, page 78:

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