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UNDISCOVERABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undiscoverable mean? 

UNDISCOVERABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNDISCOVERABLE has 1 sense:

1. not able to be ascertained; resisting discoveryplay

  Familiarity information: UNDISCOVERABLE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNDISCOVERABLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not able to be ascertained; resisting discovery

Synonyms:

unascertainable; undiscoverable

Similar:

indeterminable; undeterminable (not capable of being definitely decided or ascertained)


 Context examples 


I—a—I'll know nobody—and—a—say nothing—and—a—live nowhere—until I have crushed—to—a—undiscoverable atoms—the—transcendent and immortal hypocrite and perjurer—HEEP!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Where is the use of doing me good in any way, beneficent spirit, when, at some fatal moment, you will again desert me—passing like a shadow, whither and how to me unknown, and for me remaining afterwards undiscoverable?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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