unputdownable
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unputdownable
- /(ˌ)ʌnpʊtˈdaʊnəb(ə)l/ UK
- /ˌənˌpʊtˈdaʊnəb(ə)l/ US
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From un- + put down + -able.
adjective more unputdownable · most unputdownable · un-put-downable
- Of a person, etc.: difficult or impossible to put down (in various senses). I have known an operating surgeon, because he possessed a medical title, to be elected physician to a county hospital. I have known the surgical staff for years refuse to recognize this irregular. Yet, after all, when he became popular and unputdownable, giving in their isolated adhesions to the con
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Of a book or other written work: so captivating or engrossing that one cannot bear to stop reading it.
I found it absolutely (or almost) unputdownable and at the same time as complete a waste of time in a sense as one of [Erle Stanley] Gardner's Perry Mason stories, which I also find unputdownable.
Similar: page-turning · Opposite: putdownable, put-downable
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adj of a book, etc.: so captivating or engrossing that one cannot bear to stop reading it
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