unabbreviable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ abbreviable

Adjective

unabbreviable (not comparable)

That cannot be abbreviated.
- 1961, Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, published 2000, →ISBN, page 74:
  - - - in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.

Synonyms

unabbreviatable

Translations

that cannot be abbreviated

Finnish: lyhentämiskelvoton

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