undownable
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]Adjectif
[modifier le wikicode]undownable
- (Rare) Primordial, incontournable.
If ever there was an example of sheer pluck and undownable determination it is right here […]
— (Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association, Official Monthly Bulletin, 1923)There is the undownable legend that […]
— (Charles J. V. Murphy, Parachute, 1930)[…] the truth which came home with such undownable conviction […]
— (Frank N. Riale, Sinless, Sickless, Deathless Life, 1998)
- (Rare) Inflexible, inamovible.
The SR-71 is claimed to be undownable by virtue of its altitude and speed.
— (Andrew Pavacic, "Why are our ASMs smaller than theirs?", sci.military.naval, Usenet, 1998)[…] this paranoic attempt to discredit the credible, and down the undownable.
— (Edmond Wollmann, "A Challenge Lazzwaldo AKA anonym or whatever it is", sci.skeptic, Usenet, 1998)I did not go as far as that either. I only went as far as stating that an American warplane is almost undownable and an American warship is unsinkable.
— (kinara, "Taiwan is NOT able defeat any invasion", soc.culture.china, Usenet, 1999)
Prononciation
[modifier le wikicode]- (Royaume-Uni), (États-Unis) : \ʌnˈdaʊn.ə.bəl\
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Références
[modifier le wikicode]- Cette page utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : undownable. (liste des auteurs et autrices)