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Unpronounceable

adjective
1.
Impossible or difficult to pronounce correctly.
2.
Very difficult to pronounce correctly.  Synonym: unutterable.  "Unutterable consonant clusters"





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"Unpronounceable" Quotes from Famous Books



... darling old Goth, a symphony by the great Beethoven!" added Magdalen. "How can you say you were not amused? Have you forgotten the yellow-looking foreign woman, with the unpronounceable name? Don't you remember the faces she made when she sang? and the way she courtesied and courtesied, till she cheated the foolish people into crying encore? Look here, ...
— No Name • Wilkie Collins
... far corners of Mexico that afternoon, and at an unheard-of place, with an unpronounceable name, it found Cornelius McVeigh, the centre of a group of gentlemen. The party had just emerged from the yawning mouth of a mine, and were resting in the sunshine and expelling the foul air from their lungs, whilst the young ...
— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer


Words linked to "Unpronounceable" :   incommunicative, unutterable, uncommunicative, pronounceable


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