unplaceableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpleɪsəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈpleɪsəb(ə)l/ Not placeable; unable to be placed, assigned, or classified.
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1870 W. Rossetti in Shelley's Wks. 471 The lines are not of the kind one is better pleased to find unplaceable.
1907 Yale Lit. Mag. Nov. 71 The face of him that led, familiar yet unplaceable, came vividly before him.
1935 Sun (Baltimore) 10 Jan. 22/4 The increase in the number of unplaceable children taken under care.
1972 Human World Feb. 21 The absence of unplaceable graduates in Britain and the U.S.A. was one of the chief causes of the relative immunity of these countries to Marxism.
1984 New Yorker 9 Apr. 39/2 The music was unplaceable. It must have been a Russian idea of American pop.
2010 Observer 24 Jan. 13/2 James was deemed to be ‘unplaceable’ by social services. They put him in a children's home, where he remains.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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