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Undiscoverable

Definition: Undiscoverable

Undiscoverable

Adjective

1. Not able to be ascertained; resisting discovery.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "undiscoverable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Synonym: Undiscoverable

Synonym: unascertainable (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Undiscoverable

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Unintelligibility	Adjective: unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unknowable, unfathomable; incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable; inapprehensible, incomprehensible; insolvable, insoluble; impenetrable.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Undiscoverable

English words defined with "undiscoverable": Indiscoverable ♦ Sightproof. (references)

Use in Literature: Undiscoverable

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	They were at the irrevocable and undiscoverable hour, at the dazzling point of intersection of all youth and of all joy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Modern Translation: Undiscoverable

Language		Translations for "undiscoverable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		introuvable (untraceable). (various references)

German		unauffindbar (untraceable). (various references)

Pig Latin		iscoverableunday

Turkish		keşfedilemez (indiscoverable). (various references)

Vietnamese		không thể tìm ra được, không thể phát hiện được. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Undiscoverable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-i-l-n-o-r-s-u-v"
	-2 letters: considerable, discoverable, ribonuclease.
	-3 letters: conversable, discernable, undesirable.
	-4 letters: adenovirus, arecolines, ascendible, banderoles, bandoleers, bandoliers, binoculars, boulevards, boundaries, breadlines, censurable, deaconries, endeavours, endorsable, incurables, ineducable, involucres, nucleoside, obduracies, observance, overbuilds, overcleans, oversauced, overscaled, unobserved, unresolved, unsociable, verdancies, virulences, vulcanised.
	-5 letters: absconder, acroleins, albicores, aleurones, ardencies, arecoline, audiences, balconied, balconies, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, bandolier, barleducs, baseliner.
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Alternative Orthography: Undiscoverable

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 64 69 73 63 6F 76 65 72 61 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..- -. -.. .. ... -.-. --- ...- . .-. .- -... .-.. .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01100100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#100 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0064 0069 0073 0063 006F 0076 0065 0072 0061 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5580707585698188718467687871

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Fiction

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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