uncategorizable
adjective
un·cat·e·gor·iz·able
ˌən-ˈka-ti-gə-ˌrī-zə-bəl 
: not able to be put into a defined category or class : impossible to categorize
an uncategorizable performer/style
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The rest, whether swingy or Schuberty or uncategorizable, are by Kander alone.
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
The strife and hustle of the Parisian suburbs have been portrayed onscreen before — never, though, through the eyes of a protagonist as uncategorizable as the one in Lola Quivoron’s exhilarating genre mashup.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
The French writer Nathalie Léger, whose work in translation Rudick reviewed earlier this year, is exemplary of that unusual, experimental sensibility; in Léger’s uncategorizable, semi-biographical writings on female artists, details of her own mother’s traumatic 1974 divorce surface.
—Lucy Jakub, The New York Review of Books, 11 Dec. 2021
My should-win pick keeps the trend of uncategorizable albums going, though, with the latest from visionary jazz pianist and producer Robert Glasper.
—Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
The strife and hustle of the Parisian suburbs have been portrayed onscreen before — never, though, through the eyes of a protagonist as uncategorizable as the one in Lola Quivoron’s exhilarating genre mashup.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
The French writer Nathalie Léger, whose work in translation Rudick reviewed earlier this year, is exemplary of that unusual, experimental sensibility; in Léger’s uncategorizable, semi-biographical writings on female artists, details of her own mother’s traumatic 1974 divorce surface.
—Lucy Jakub, The New York Review of Books, 11 Dec. 2021
My should-win pick keeps the trend of uncategorizable albums going, though, with the latest from visionary jazz pianist and producer Robert Glasper.
—Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
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“Uncategorizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncategorizable. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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