unmentionable

1. 1.

   unsuitable or forbidden as a topic of conversation

   “unmentionable words”

   Similarimpermissible

Other forms of unmentionable

plural

unmentionables·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unmentionable

What does unmentionable mean?

unmentionable means "a garment worn under other garments". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unmentionable?

unmentionable has 5 syllables: un-men-tio-na-ble. The stress falls on "men". In IPA it is /ənˈmɛnʃənəbəl/.

What is another word for unmentionable?

Close synonyms include undergarment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unmentionable a common word?

unmentionable is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.