Meaning of unseatable | Babel Free
Definitions
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Not seatable; unable to sit or be seated. not-comparable
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Able to be unseated (in various senses). not-comparable
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Not unseatable; unable to be unseated. nonstandard, not-comparable
Examples
“The one time I got called for Jury Duty, it was great: / -I worked for a Newspaper. / -I had long hair with a dyed blonde streak. / -My Mom was in litigation over a hit & run. / I was completely unseatable.”
“If there are five people in a room and four chairs, then you cannot seat all the people simultaneously, despite the fact that, for each person you might choose among the five, there are ways of seating that person (and three others). There is no magically unseatable person.”
“The seat described has successfully seated a child that was previously unseatable in a static chair. He is comfortable and is able to sit in his chair for extended periods of time.”
“Consider the analogy of the game of musical chairs. Since there are fewer seat^([sic]) than players, this means that there are bound to be some that go without. And yet that does not means that they are somehow inherently unseatable. No player is in principle unseatable—destined to go without.”
“The Anglo-Saxon tradition, deriving from Hooker, Locke, Bentham, Mill, is prone to look upon popular will as a peculiarly unseatable tyrant unless it finds practical expression in forms which safeguard the rights and free choice of the individual.”
“[…] I probably just wasn't inserting the memory DIMM correctly, not that it was intrinsically unseatable; I zorched the motherboard myself when trying to remove disk drives […]”
“With the analyst, Joan was searching for a worthy, unseatable replacement for her parents.”
“But I am equally convinced that our three horsemen are so solidly saddled as to be virtually unseatable in the foreseeable future.”
“This can be construed as nothing other than an assault on MSFT, which seems like a good idea to me. The idea that MSFT is unseatable in its software leadership role is silly.”
“If every tournament was like Davis Cup, [Jim] Courier would be unseatable at #1. He seems to thrive in the capacity that is Davis Cup.”
“It will be a story of a few enlightened who combat the nearly unseatable moguls of today, never mind how much we are socially reinforced to pretend to like them, or financially inhibited (who likes to lose their job or be unable to house their family) to speak out against them.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.