🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

販売不可能な

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hanbai fukanō na

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unsellable/ʌnˈsɛl.ə.bəl/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
Full Thesaurus
🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"不良品の山は完全に販売不可能な状態だった。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Unable to be sold; not marketable or unsuitable for sale due to poor quality, damage, or lack of demand.

    "The warehouse fire left hundreds of electronics completely unsellable."
  2. 2

    Prohibited by law or regulation from being traded or sold.

    "Certain endangered species artifacts are legally unsellable."

Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum

Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Formed in English by combining the negative prefix 'un-' (from Old English 'on-', meaning not or opposite of) with 'sellable' (derived from the verb 'sell', from Old English 'sellan', meaning to give or hand over, combined with the suffix '-able' from Latin '-abilis'). The term emerged in modern commercial terminology to describe goods that lack marketability or fail to meet standards required for sale.

Quick Vocabulary Retention Check

Which of the following is the closest synonym for "Unsellable"?

Thesaurus & Synonyms Graph

Explore Nuanced Synonyms for "Unsellable"

Discover exact matches, context-specific alternatives, and antonyms with intensity ratings in the VocabDictionary Thesaurus.

View "Unsellable" Synonym Map