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unscalable

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Not scalable, that cannot be climbed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings, Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

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adj

Meaning 2

Not scalable, that cannot be changed in scale.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

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Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective

Meaning 3

incapable of being ascended

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: unclimbable

Antonyms: scalable

History

Etymology

From un- + scalable.