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unnamable
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un·name·a·ble or un·nam·a·ble  (n-nm-bl)
adj.
Not to be named or identified: "We lived in dread of various unnameable calamities" (Garrison Keillor).
Translations
unnam(e)able
adj → unsagbar
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