unadoptable

1. 1.

   difficult to place in an adoptive home

   Antonymsadoptable

Questions about unadoptable

What does unadoptable mean?

unadoptable means "difficult to place in an adoptive home".

How many syllables are in unadoptable?

unadoptable has 5 syllables and divides as u-na-dop-ta-ble under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of unadoptable?

The recorded antonyms are adoptable.

Is unadoptable a common word?

unadoptable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.