Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

inoperable

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɒp(ə)rəb(ə)l/
Translate inoperable | into German | into Italian
Definition of inoperable

adjective

  • 1 Medicine not able to be suitably operated on:inoperable cancer
  • 2not able to be used:the airfield was bombed and made inoperable
  • 3not able to be implemented; impractical:the procedures were inoperable

Derivatives

inoperability

Pronunciation: /-ˈbɪlɪti/
noun

inoperably

adverb

inoperable in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of inoperable in the US English dictionary

Nearby words

  |  Cite

More words in this category

Word of the day

enjambement

/ ɪnˈdʒam(b)m(ə)nt /
noun
(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause …