unabbreviable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + abbreviable
Adjective[edit]
unabbreviable (not comparable)
- That cannot be abbreviated.
- 1961, Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, published 2000, →ISBN, page 74:
- - - - in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
that cannot be abbreviated
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