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untieable en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From untie + -able.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Able to be untied.
   • And the parson, true to the shepherding instincts, soon began to extend his vigilance to every member of his domestic fold. It seemed to Ursie that his mission was to either catch her bootlaces untied or a not untiable knot in them. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 179:
   • an untieable knot

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Deriveds

un-untieable

untieable en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From un- + tieable.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Unable to be tied, not tieable.

Forms