unpropitiable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ propitiable

Adjective[edit]

unpropitiable (comparative more unpropitiable, superlative most unpropitiable)

  1. Incapable of being propitiated.
    • 1885, Edgar Fawcett, Social Silhouettes:
      I discovered seven new, assertive, unpropitiable gray hairs
    • c. 1958, Richard Palmer Blackmur, Sea Island Miscellany:
      a sacrifice vainly surrendered to unpropitiable seas