ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unputdownable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /(ˌ)ʌnpʊtˈdaʊnəb(ə)l/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Unputdownable is an adjective meaning Of a person, etc.: difficult or impossible to put down (in various senses).

Meaning

Of a person, etc.: difficult or impossible to put down (in various senses).

More Meanings

  1. (specifically) Of a book or other written work: so captivating or engrossing that one cannot bear to stop reading it.

Example Sentences

Only someone with enormous unputdownable optimism would ever have embarked on a project like this.
But she also remembers Phillips as someone who ‘people liked to be a bit scornful of, the kind of man they would like to put down, although he was unputdownable’.
Des Capper blinked, as if he has been hit with a dictionary. But he was unputdownable, at the same time giving the impression that he was registering all the snubs.
Now begins the allurement of the ‘unputdownable’ text. But is it unputdownable? The author must spin out and embroider the theme of a demoniacally possessed girl for all that it is worth.

Synonyms for unputdownable

Depending on context, synonyms include interesting.

Antonyms for unputdownable

Common opposites include putdownable, put-downable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include interesting, un-put-downable, unpindownable, putdownable, un-pin-downable, unwithstandable.

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