uncategorizable

adjective

un·​cat·​e·​gor·​iz·​able ˌən-ˈka-ti-gə-ˌrī-zə-bəl How to pronounce uncategorizable (audio)
: 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. 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 See all Example Sentences for uncategorizable 

Word History

First Known Use

1960, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of uncategorizable was in 1960

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“Uncategorizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncategorizable. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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