unborable

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From un- +‎ borable.

Adjective

unborable (comparative more unborable, superlative most unborable)

  1. Impossible to bore, or cause to lose interest.
    You can talk to him all night about anything: he's quite unborable.
    • 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 440:
      To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
  2. Impossible to bore or drill into.
    • 1908, Charles George Warnford Lock, Miners' Pocket-book, page 216:
      […] rocks having an asbestos-like structure are almost unborable, the time amounting to several hours per ft.
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