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/ʌnˈklʌb.ə.bl̩/ · adjective
Not suitable for membership of a club, because of a lack of social skills or conformity; unsociable..
‘But Sir John was a most unclubable man!’
It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town.
I have to conclude that I am unclubbable. Unlike John O'Hara, who kept embossed seals of his various clubs on his gold cigarette case, I apparently take no continuing pleasure in clubs nor any real satisfaction in the thought that I have been asked to join a few of them.
For much of the nineteenth century, conventional wisdom deemed women intractably unclubbable. The standard arguments in circulation at the time often began by pointing to women's “natural” inclination not to be social.
Use unclubbable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unclubbable means Not suitable for membership of a club, because of a lack of social skills or conformity; unsociable..
Common synonyms include unsociable, reclusive, antisocial.
Possible antonyms include clubbable, sociable.
‘But Sir John was a most unclubable man!’
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