• Unmarriageable

    Full definition of unmarriageable

    Adjective

    unmarriageable

    1. Not marriageable, unsuitable for marriage.
      • 1880, Henry James, , Chapter VI,You have always had a little way of alluding to her as an unmarriageable girl.
      • 1912, David Graham Phillips, The Price She Paid, 2008 Gutenberg edition,He had a way of pronouncing the word "miss" that made it an epithet, a sneer at her unmarried and unmarriageable state.
    2. That cannot be reconciled, inconsistent.
      • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ,A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and he was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need, the mediator betwixt two else unmarriageable facts.
      • 1902, George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, 2005 Gutenberg edition,... which is a very curious cross between two things that at first sight may seem unmarriageable, the Wordsworthian enthusiasm and the Byronic despair.
    © Wiktionary