unendable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ endable.

Adjective

unendable (not comparable)

  1. Impossible to end; which cannot be ended; interminable.
    • 1913 February, “Khedder”, in Blackwood's Magazine, page 213:
      The discussion seemed unendable, and I fell asleep on the ground outside[.]
    • 2002, Ronald Wright, Henderson's Spear, →ISBN, page 318:
      In the far-off days before this unending and perhaps unendable war, we believed that reason governed human events, ...
    • 2015, Wendell Berry, Our Only World: Ten Essays, →ISBN:
      The abortion debate involves endless, unendable disagreement about such issues as when a fetus becomes a human or a person, when life begins, when or whether abortion should be legal, whether we should call it “killing” or “termination.”
    • 2025 September 23, Donald Trump, speech at United Nations:
      Likewise, in a period of just seven months, I have ended seven unendable wars. They said they were unendable. You're never going to get them solved. Some were going for 31 years, two of them, 31, you think of it, 31 years. One was 36 years, one was 28 years. I ended seven wars.

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