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unbudgeable

American  
[uhn-buhj-uh-buhl] / ʌnˈbʌdʒ ə bəl /

adjective

  1. incapable of being budged budge or changed; inflexible.

    an unbudgeable opinion.


Other Word Forms

  • unbudgeability noun
  • unbudgeableness noun
  • unbudgeably adverb

Etymology

Origin of unbudgeable

First recorded in 1925–30; un- 1 + budge 1 + -able

Example Sentences

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He was having trouble breaking into the biggest corridas, colliding with some unbudgeable barrier that he couldn’t comprehend.

From New York Times • May 3, 2022

The studio walls were lined on both sides with fickle windows, which would either stick open, unbudgeable, or fly shut with a nasty bang at the slightest touch.

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2016

There is a backstop—the craton, that ancient unbudgeable mass at the center of the continent—and, sooner or later, North America will rebound like a spring.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2015

A man once derided as slippery in his political pragmatism had become a weathered, unbudgeable rock.

From Time Magazine Archive

Murdock, for one, finds that unbudgeable nature both refreshing and valuable.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam