unpurchasable

adjective

un·​purchasable

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1

: not purchasable : too rare or expensive to be or not of a type that can be bought

the unpurchasable beauties of the countryside

2

: not bribable

it is only the man unpurchasable by society that can create the sound society

—O. L. Reiser & Blodwen Davies

Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined above

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