Inarticulable

Origin

First attested in 1825: formed as - + articulable; compare inarticulate and the slightly earlier (1824) French inarticulable.

Full definition of inarticulable

Adjective

1. Not articulable; incapable of being articulate.
• 1825, James Silk Buckingham ed., The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, volume 6, page 103I add two letters to this class, under the title of anomalous, which are the Arabic qaf (incorrectly written g, in the Plate, instead of q,) and the Hebrew, or Arabic ain, which some suppose to be inarticulable by a European voice.

Derived terms

• inarticulability