unrewardable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ rewardable

Adjective

unrewardable (comparative more unrewardable, superlative most unrewardable)

1. For which no reward can be given.
   • 1976, Production and Inventory Management, volumes 17-18, page 118:

     If good performance is unmeasurable, and hence unrewardable, why perform?

2. For which no reward would be sufficient.
   • 1825, Samuel Lorenzo Knapp, Boston Monthly Magazine, volume 1, number 2, page 78:

     For some time, I, in common with many others, considered this fascinating writer as having done an unrewardable service to his age, by the death blow he has given to that host of female scribblers who did much worse than waste the paper […] by their voluminous tomes of sentimental nonsense […]