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undocumentable

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Not supportable with documentary evidence.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • These hearsay claims are intrinsically undocumentable.
  • 1953, W. Cochran, F. Mosteller, and J. Tukey, "Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol 48 no 264 (Dec), p. 674. KPM should have indicated which of their statements where undocumented or undocumentable and should have been more cautious.
  • 2002, Scott Moss, "Policy analysis from first principles." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 99, no 10, sup 3 (May), p. 7265. Apart from one undocumentable claim, the strongest responses were that, when applied to past data, some new modeling techniques look better than most previous modeling techniques.

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English documentable English undocumentable From un- + documentable.

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Translations

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  • Hungarian: dokumentálhatatlan — not supportable with documentary evidence