unabbreviable
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Etymology edit
un- + abbreviable
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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.
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that cannot be abbreviated
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