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Webster 1828 Edition


Unmalleable

UNMAL'LEABLE

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Adj.
Not malleable; not capable of being hammered into a plate, or of being extended by beating.

Definition 2024


unmalleable

unmalleable

English

Adjective

unmalleable (comparative more unmalleable, superlative most unmalleable)

  1. Not malleable.
    • 2007 June 5, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis”, in New York Times:
      If location photography meant better-looking backgrounds than the painted flats or rear-projection screens of the studios, it also meant that filmmakers had to curtail their creative urges in the face of unmalleable reality.