unclassable
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a word derived from
class.
classnouna number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort.
Example Sentences
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These, and birds unnamable, and beasts unclassable, with dots and marks and hieroglyphics, recorded the history of a bygone people.
From The Last of the Plainsmen by Zane Grey
Possibly he belonged to the unclassed and the unclassable, in which case the interest attaching to him was of the highest kind.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
He seemed to me a sort of Adam, a fresh, new and original man, unclassable and unjudgable by any of the formulas or prejudices which served me as means of appreciating men.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various
He felt very sorry for that unclassable personage; he couldn't bear to see a pleasant man, so pleasant for all his queerness, so beyond anything to be done.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by Henry James