assimilable
adjective
capable of being assimilated.
unassimilable
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a word derived from
assimilable.
Example Sentences
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Portuguese- speaking Brazilians regarded the Japanese people, who resisted becoming bilingual and maintained schools and newspapers in their own language, as unassimilable, and in 1923 the government imposed a strict quota on immigrants from Japan.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
We’re not unassimilable; we all become part of the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022
There is something at once mind-blowing and unassimilable about the phenomenon.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
Yet Mr. Lopez and Mr. Ramos are all but unimaginable in that context, partly because their art has a specifically period feel, but more because it is fundamentally, flamboyantly anti-classical, meaning anti-institutional, pro-alien, unassimilable.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2016
As arguments were adduced that the British element had proved itself unassimilable and irreconcilable, its retention in South Africa would necessitate continuous provisions to keep it in a state of subjection.
From Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by C. H. Thomas
