unhookable

English

Etymology 1

unhook +‎ -able

Adjective

unhookable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being taken down from hooks.

Translations

Capable of being unhooked

• French: décrochable (fr)

Etymology 2

un- +‎ hookable

Adjective

unhookable (not comparable)

1. Impossible to hook or catch hold of.
   • 2008, Paul Schullery, Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir, page 51:

     The water was full of unhookable fish; they would strike savagely but quickly slip from the hook before I could even identify them.